“There is the essence of La Notte, there is the modernity of a woman and of a city that together spoke of emptiness, silence and the failure to communicate, and there are the dress rehearsals of a fashion photography that only later would read the female body and mind with the same freedom and the same spareness.” — Laura Leonelli

If in black and white Strizzi seems to search the endless gaze of Monica Vitti, in the colour frames he gives the irreducibility of a body able to hand light and sense back to a time that had to make many compromises, the first of them with a happiness clouded over.