#678: ANTONIONI, Michelangelo: La Notte (1961)
ANTONIONI, Michelangelo (Italy)
La Notte [1961]
Spine #678
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This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'avventura. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Antonioni's muse Moniva Vitti smolders as an industrialist's tempting daughter. Moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances make La notte an indelible illustration of romantic and social deterioration.
122 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
in Italian
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2013
Director/Writers
Michelangelo Antonioni was 49 when he directed La Notte.
Original story by Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano and Tonino Guerra.
Other Antonioni films in the Collection:
#817: Le Amiche (1955)
#98: L'Avventura (1960)
#278: L'Eclisse (1962)
#522: Red Desert (1964)
#865: Blow-Up (1966)
#585: Identification of a Woman (1982)
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Twenty page booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and a 1961 article by director Antonioni.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With film critic Adriano Aprà and film historian Carlo di Carlo.
Interview 2
With professor Giulialna Bruno on the role of architecture in La Notte.
Trailer
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