#278: ANTONIONI, Michelangelo: L'Eclisse (1962)
ANTONIONI, Michelangelo (Italy)
L'Eclisse [1962]
Spine #278
Blu-ray
Story and screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, with collaboration from Elio Bartolini and Ottiero Ottieri.
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
Story and screenplay by Michaelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, with collaboration from Elio Bartolini and Ottiero Ottieri.
Antonioni was 50 when he directed L'eclisse.
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
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
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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)
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The ExtrasThe 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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