L'Eclisse (1962)
(The Eclipse)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 125m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
An affectless young woman leaves her long-term intellectual lover and drifts into a relationship with her mother's stockbroker as millions are wiped off the market; but she is unsure whether she really wants to be with him either.
Review:
The final part of the director's alienation trilogy is also his last film in black and white, and it bears the stamp of his photographer's eye for composition and depth of field. Indeed it is the environment in which his character's move that seems to interest him more than they themselves, an environment which he famously shows stripped of their presence at the end of the film, in a seven-minute montage of images and camera moves. What he seems to imply is that the lovers are first desensitized, then consumed, by their urban existence, an existence which he shows to be in crisis in a variety of ways. It is a fascinating viewing experience, with more interest in a given shot than in several minutes of other directors' work.
(The Eclipse)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 125m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
An affectless young woman leaves her long-term intellectual lover and drifts into a relationship with her mother's stockbroker as millions are wiped off the market; but she is unsure whether she really wants to be with him either.
Review:
The final part of the director's alienation trilogy is also his last film in black and white, and it bears the stamp of his photographer's eye for composition and depth of field. Indeed it is the environment in which his character's move that seems to interest him more than they themselves, an environment which he famously shows stripped of their presence at the end of the film, in a seven-minute montage of images and camera moves. What he seems to imply is that the lovers are first desensitized, then consumed, by their urban existence, an existence which he shows to be in crisis in a variety of ways. It is a fascinating viewing experience, with more interest in a given shot than in several minutes of other directors' work.
(The Eclipse)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: bw 125m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis:
An affectless young woman leaves her long-term intellectual lover and drifts into a relationship with her mother's stockbroker as millions are wiped off the market; but she is unsure whether she really wants to be with him either.
Review:
The final part of the director's alienation trilogy is also his last film in black and white, and it bears the stamp of his photographer's eye for composition and depth of field. Indeed it is the environment in which his character's move that seems to interest him more than they themselves, an environment which he famously shows stripped of their presence at the end of the film, in a seven-minute montage of images and camera moves. What he seems to imply is that the lovers are first desensitized, then consumed, by their urban existence, an existence which he shows to be in crisis in a variety of ways. It is a fascinating viewing experience, with more interest in a given shot than in several minutes of other directors' work.