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L'eclisse (Criterion Collection)

L'eclisse (Criterion Collection)

Cineriz (1962)
Drama | Romance
Italy | Italian | Black & White | 02:06
Blu-ray
715515210911
| 1 disc

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.


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Alain Delon Piero
Monica Vitti Vittoria
Francisco Rabal Riccardo
Lilla Brignone Vittoria's Mother
Rossana Rory Anita
Mirella Ricciardi Marta
Louis Seigner Ercoli
Cyrus Elias Intoxicated Man
Alba Maiolini Woman at the Stock Market
Maria Tedeschi Woman with Glasses at the Stock Market

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Added Date Nov 30, 2021 20:17:32
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Edition details

Screen Ratios Widescreen (1.85:1)
Edition Release Date Mar 06, 2018

Notes

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.

SPECIAL FEATURES
High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio 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, a twenty-two-minute piece from 2005 about Antonioni and L’eclisse, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo
PLUS: Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work

Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang

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