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Visually inventive director who transforms mundane situations into stylized, darkly comic set pieces.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet UnionHis films use vast architectural and natural spaces as meditative environments where the camera lingers to explore humanity's relationship with the physical world.
Michelangelo Antonioni ItalyHe makes architectural spaces and urban environments primary characters in his narratives, using modernist settings to reflect existential alienation and emotional detachment.