pretty fucking good! based (loosely, the credits say) on a story by cesare pavese.
so it's far from antonioni's later adventures in the ultraworld-- this is more of a... it's almost french!
if you like dumb movies, please don't watch this. if you like a little bit of soap opera, you might give it a shot. it's not soap opera of course but there's a lot of back & forth between the characters.