How does a desert turn green?

RED DESERT IN THE CITY

Michelangelo Antonioni on 'The Lady Without Camelias' (1953): "I reacted very strangely to this film. I always thought of it as a mistake, but instead I discovered that it has a narrative balance of its own and also that it was filmed in a curious way-a very subdued way, with characters in insignificant situations and environments, as if l wanted to ignore their psychological motivations. I thought that it was a cold film and then instead I discovered that it was very warm, and precise, both sen