#278: ANTONIONI, Michelangelo: L'Eclisse (1962)
ANTONIONI, Michelangelo (Italy)
L'Eclisse [1962]
Spine #278
Blu-ray
Michelangelo Antonioni was 50 when he directed L'eclisse.
Story and screenplay by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra.
Other Antonioni films in the Collection:
#817: Le Amiche (1955)
#98: L'Avventura (1960)
#678: La Notte (1961)
#522: Red Desert (1964)
#865: Blow-Up (1966)
#585: Identification of a Woman (1982)
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Thirty-page booklet featuring essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work.
Commentary
By film scholar Richard Peña.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001)
L'Eclisse [1962]
Spine #278
Blu-ray
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'avventura and La notte), L'eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.
126 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in Italian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2014
Director/Writers
Michelangelo Antonioni was 50 when he directed L'eclisse.
Story and screenplay by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra.
With collaboration from Elio Bartolini and Ottiero Ottieri.
Other Antonioni films in the Collection:
#817: Le Amiche (1955)
#98: L'Avventura (1960)
#678: La Notte (1961)
#522: Red Desert (1964)
#865: Blow-Up (1966)
#585: Identification of a Woman (1982)
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Thirty-page booklet featuring essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work.
Commentary
By film scholar Richard Peña.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001)
A fifty-six minute documentary exploring the director’s life and career.
Elements of Landscape
Elements of Landscape
A twenty-two minute piece from 2005 about Atonioni and L’Eclisse, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo.
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