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N.U. (film)
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'N.U.' (short for 'Nettezza urbana', Italian municipal cleansing service) is a short 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The film examines a weekday morning of Italian janitors, captured at work on the streets of post-World War II Rome.
Although undoubtedly neorealistic in its style, this documentary does foreshadow some of Antonioni's own future trademarks, such as slow-moving camera that is enamoured with alienated and deserted urban landscapes and inanimate objects of architecture, nature, etc. and seemingly less than concerned with sweepers, washers and cleaners (almost indistinguishable from bums, and sometimes behaving much in the same way). The film's narration consists of barely several phrases; musically soundtrack alternates classical-like piano improvisations with jazzy pieces.
In 1948 'N.U.' won Antonioni Nastro d'Argento Best Documentary award.[https://books.google.com/books?id=69ey6Z-05fMC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=N.U.+Nastro+d'Argento+Best+Documentary+award&source=web&ots=9fsHlHD4Xd&sig=tYJcYu9NJYlDINcAV1PaVTGFPLo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies] So did his 'L'amorosa menzogna' next year.
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