Bergman said Antonioni did two things - La Notte and Blow-Up. (he didn't like Vitti) Even if the fashions of that moment seem so dated, I think Blow-Up is the best. It's an endless film, as in it keeps mutating into something else, like 2001. This is a good book, with none of that academic jargon, about the big A - https://www.amazon.com/Antonioni-Poet-Images-William-Arrowsmith/dp/0195092708 Arrowsmith was a classicist--the big A was very literary, loved Hemingway.