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The end title of a film by this director appears after the camera moves from a nighttime construction site to a single streetlight, accompanied by an eerie horn and piano crescendo. A woman reclining on a hill tells her lover “I wish I didn’t love you or that I loved you much more” in a film by this director. A different film by this director cuts from a couple making out on a hill to a long panning shot of a train (15[1])moving through a country landscape. (-5[1])In a film by this director, while two women (*) change together in a bathroom, one of them abruptly admits that she lied about seeing a shark when she went swimming. This director began an unofficial trilogy (10[1])of modernist films with one about Sandro and Claudia searching for Anna after she disappears during their vacation. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what Italian director incorporated sparse, meandering plots and long takes into his films like L’Eclisse and L’Avventura? ■END■

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