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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 moving through a country landscape. 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. (10[1])This director began an unofficial trilogy of modernist films with one about Sandro and Claudia searching for Anna after she disappears during their vacation. For 10 points, what Italian director incorporated sparse, meandering plots and long takes into his films like L’Eclisse and L’Avventura? ■END■

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