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.
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 |
Director | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
Writer | Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini, Ottiero Ottieri | |
Producer | Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim | |
Musician | Giovanni Fusco | |
Photography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Nov 30, 2021 20:17:32 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:35:18 |
Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.85:1) |
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Edition Release Date | Mar 06, 2018 |
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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