Red Desert (1964)
(Il Deserto Rosso)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 116m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris
Synopsis:
A factory owner's wife clings to her son and is desperate for love and comfort in what seems to her an ugly and oppressive world. When a business associate of her husband's appears to take an interest in her she tentatively reaches out for solace but is unable to connect.
Review:
The director's first colour film is a grey, misty affair of hunched exchanges punctuated by distant foghorns and patrolled by silently passing ships. The expressionistic use of colour cries out for attention almost as much as the anxious heroine who, in one telling sequence, recounts a story to her son of a girl on a beautiful island, and in another has a more meaningful exchange with a foreign sailor whose language she does not speak than with anyone else in the movie. In Antonioni's terms, Vitti's character is someone incapable of adapting to a changing environment.
(Il Deserto Rosso)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 116m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris
Synopsis:
A factory owner's wife clings to her son and is desperate for love and comfort in what seems to her an ugly and oppressive world. When a business associate of her husband's appears to take an interest in her she tentatively reaches out for solace but is unable to connect.
Review:
The director's first colour film is a grey, misty affair of hunched exchanges punctuated by distant foghorns and patrolled by silently passing ships. The expressionistic use of colour cries out for attention almost as much as the anxious heroine who, in one telling sequence, recounts a story to her son of a girl on a beautiful island, and in another has a more meaningful exchange with a foreign sailor whose language she does not speak than with anyone else in the movie. In Antonioni's terms, Vitti's character is someone incapable of adapting to a changing environment.
(Il Deserto Rosso)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: col 116m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris
Synopsis:
A factory owner's wife clings to her son and is desperate for love and comfort in what seems to her an ugly and oppressive world. When a business associate of her husband's appears to take an interest in her she tentatively reaches out for solace but is unable to connect.
Review:
The director's first colour film is a grey, misty affair of hunched exchanges punctuated by distant foghorns and patrolled by silently passing ships. The expressionistic use of colour cries out for attention almost as much as the anxious heroine who, in one telling sequence, recounts a story to her son of a girl on a beautiful island, and in another has a more meaningful exchange with a foreign sailor whose language she does not speak than with anyone else in the movie. In Antonioni's terms, Vitti's character is someone incapable of adapting to a changing environment.