Or is it? I've never been that interested in who killed the man who fondled Vanessa Redgrave, what I want to know is which mime artist won the tennis match at the end? When Antonioni cuts away to Hemmings it looks like 30-15 to the bloke but that last point (a fault naturally) leaves it all wide open. Does the fact that the ball doesn't exist mean the game will be void anyway? It was recently suggested to me that none of it happened anyway because Hemmings smokes far too much and probably can't tell fantasy from reality. Perhaps we, the audience don't exist and it's the film itself which is a collective fantasy - the projection of Redgrave's unconscious mind. If this is the case then none of us have the right to comment on it any further.
As for who killed the older man, it's obvious. It was Hemmings. He shot him you see. I thank you.
As for who killed the older man, it's obvious. It was Hemmings. He shot him you see. I thank you.