Wim Wenders's fascinating and often moving account of his experiences helping one of the masters of modern cinema make his final film.

In 1983 the world-renowned filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni suffered a physically debilitating stroke that left him severely aphasic. While mentally alert, he had, but for roughly a dozen words in Italian, lost the ability to speak and to write. He was able to draw--but only with his left hand. None of this, however, could extinguish his creative drive and he was determined to continue working. Eventually he managed to convince financiers that he was still capable of making a film as long as there was another director on the set to interpret his drawings and nods of the head. Thus in the spring of 1994, with the internationally acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders signed on as co-director to calm concerned insurers, he began filming Beyond the Clouds.

My Time with Antonioni is Wenders's diary of filming with "the maestro." With insight and respect, he recounts the experiences--both good and bad--of striving to bring to fruition Antonioni's cinematic vision.

维姆・文德斯 Wim Wenders 著名电影导演，与法斯宾德、施隆多夫和赫尔措格并称为“德国新电影四杰”，是20世纪70年代“新德国电影运动”（New German Cinema）的代表人物之一。 文德斯1945年出生于德国杜塞尔多夫，1963－1965年在慕尼黑大学学习医学及哲学专业，1966年投考巴黎高等电影学院失败，用一年时间在巴黎电影资料馆观摩大量影片自学成才。1970年代，受当时美国公路电影的启发，以及出于少年时对西部片的喜爱，文德斯开始拍摄属于自己的欧洲式的公路电影，并由此奠定了他日后的创作方向，开始了他在光影世界里的慢慢流浪。在他的著名电影作品《德州巴黎》、《美国朋友》、《柏林苍穹下》、《直到世界末日》……中，流浪与疏离成为永远的主角，文德斯也借由这两个元素在银幕上创造出一个个充满诗意与虚空感的世界，赢得了评论家和观众们的喜爱，并多次荣获夏纳、柏林、威尼斯等国际电影节的大奖，在国际影坛上拥有举足轻重的地位。