Identificazione di il bagno

Tuesday night, the American Cinemateque screened Michelangelo Antonioni's seldom exhibited jewel, Identification of a Woman. I'd seen the film only once before, during the LACMA retrospective in 2005, after which I ranked it amongst the director's most erotic, mysterious best.
Aside from another eerie fog-scape, and it's science fiction epilogue, I remembered absolutely the bathroom in the protagonist's Roman flat.
Clawfoot tub with tankless toilet and bidet. Magnificent marble wainscotting. Despite shower riser, and interesting wall mount configuration, no apparent shower curtain. The sink, visible in another scene, is of the incredible four-legged serpentine variety.

Antonioni's last full fledged feature was paired with Valerio Zurlini's Black Jesus, a thinly disguised homage to Congo rebel leader Patrice Lalumba. That feature, unsurprisingly, didn't showcase any beautiful plumbing. Here's another still from Identificazione, and a sadly faded print.