L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection (1962) USA
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Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
Studio:Criterion
Producer:Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
Writer:Eric Leiser
Rating:4.5 (34 votes)
Rated:Unrated
Date Added:2007-10-20
ASIN:B0007989Y8
UPC:9780780029590
Price:$39.95
Genre:Art House & International
Release:2005-03-15
IMDb:0829159
Duration:125
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Languages:English, Italian
Subtitles:English
Features:Black and White, Special Edition
Michelangelo Antonioni  ...  (Director)
Eric Leiser  ...  (Writer)
 
Alain Delon  ...  
Monica Vitti  ...  
Francisco Rabal  ...  
Louis Seigner  ...  
Lilla Brignone  ...  
Bunny Lampert  ...  Roma girl
Tania Padilla  ...  Artistic subject
Gianni Di Venanzo  ...  Cinematographer
Eraldo Da Roma  ...  Editor
Summary: Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Eclisse" rolls over you and wraps you in its stylish embrace. The plot, such as it is, follows Vittoria (luscious Monica Vitti, "The Red Desert") as her engagement falls apart and she slowly falls into a giddy but anxious affair with Piero (Alain Delon, "Le Samourai", "Purple Noon"), a trader in Rome's stock exchange. Like Ingmar Bergman ("Scenes from a Marriage", "Persona"), Antonioni examines the nuances of human relationships--but where Bergman is dense and dialogue-driven, Antonioni is spare and visual (there's maybe a page of dialogue in the first fifteen minutes of "L'Eclisse"). Every frame is like an exquisite black and white photograph, yet there's nothing static about this movie. It's fluid, sleek, and graceful, achieving its own kind of visual music. "L'Eclisse" contrasts opposing elements: Light and shadow, noise and silence, laughter and death, love and money, desire and dissatisfaction. Critics often describe the movie as a portrait of modern alienation, but they focus too much on Vittoria herself; while she finds her own life wanting, all around her Antonioni's camera captures a much larger world, full of as much vitality as despair, as much hope as loss. This is a movie essential to anyone's understanding of what movies can be. "--Bret Fetzer"