Antonioni returned to the desolate landscapes of the Po Valley (“the landscape I remember from my childhood”) to film this study of a man who, deserted by his fiancée, sets out with his young daughter in search of peace of mind and a new life. Despite his efforts, he remains haunted by the image of his lover and the failure of their union. Directed just before L’avventura made Antonioni an international name, Il grido was the first film to reveal the director’s mature style and preoccupations and his only set amongst the working class. As would become the hallmark of his subsequent films, here landscape is used to reveal the psychology of the character and narrative is expressed “in silent interstices between minor events.”