There were so many great ones in this, but I'd have to go with the one in the stock exchange, where a woman is leaning by a pillar, and the camera pans and moves forward to follow Piero, resulting in a close up of the woman in one half of the frame and Piero and his colleagues in the background in the other half. Stunning!
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late in the film in the scene where the two see each other for the last time. the opening shot where they are macking out on the couch, but you only see them from the end of the couch and you just see thier heads barely poking up above the arm rest of the couch. ballsy shot to say the least. they become part of some abstract compostion.
shareI love both the shots you mentioned... There are so many great ones to talk about it... I like the full shot when Vittoria and Piero embrace at the end before they separate. The lines of the doorway frame them in the middle and it's so moving. I also like in the next shot, in close-up, when their heads are together and they look off camera... into an uncertain future, perhaps.
Antonioni is a visual stylist of the first order.
My fav shot from the movie has to be when Piero and Vittoria are walking like "automats" while crossing the streets. That or the scene at the stock market that Antonioni depicts like a zoo where the humans behaves like crazy monkeys.
The final shot is quite interesting as well.