L'Eclisse (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray + 2-DVD)
… the ache and ecstasy of love…
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 10, 2014
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Monica Vitti & Alain Delon | |
Performer: | Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone & Rosanna Rory | |
Directed by | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
Screenwriting by | Michelangelo Antonioni & Tonino Guerra | |
Composition by | Giovanni Fusco | |
Produced by | Raymond Hakim & Robert Hakim | |
Director of Photography: | Gianni Di Venanzo |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1962 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The plot is minimal: what's remarkable here is how the formalist Antonioni creates and maintains the atmosphere of alienation, finding visual correlatives for his characters' psychological states.
Full Review
The List
[A]rguably Antonioni's best....It's the film's stillness and precision that lingers in the memory...
Sight and Sound
In The Eclipse... juxtaposition has become fusion: the two landscapes are made one, the visual imagery and the mental imagery effortlessly interlock.
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Sight and Sound
[A] touching artifact, capturing the last gasp of modernism before contemporary malaise would be swept up into the great postmodern maelstrom known as the society of the spectacle.
Film Comment
[A]bsolutely breathtaking...
Premiere
Anyone disenchanted with the vacuity of later Antonioni will find the seeds of their dissatisfaction well-rooted in the mannerism and facile anguish evident here.
Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
An exhilarating slow dance of not-quite-colliding bodies.
Full Review
Little White Lies
Product Description:
Michaelangelo Antonioni's L'ECLISSE (ECLIPSE) is a visually stunning film with a strange, abstract plotline. Monica Vitti stars as Vittoria, a beautiful woman who, in the opening scene of the movie, dumps her boring boyfriend Riccardo (Francisco Rabal). Vittoria's mother (Lilla Brignone) passes her time at the stock exchange, watching the numbers rise and fall as if her whole life depends on the next high or low. In contrast, Vittoria wanders the streets of the city unhindered, dreaming, floating independently and waiting for whatever fate befalls her. She begins an affair with a powerful, handsome, emotionally vacant stockbroker, Piero (Alain Delon). Their relationship is fun, flirtatious, risky, and dangerous all at once--but mostly, it is an expression of true human affection, which the other characters in L'ECLISSE seem to lack. However, the plot of L'ECLISSE is hardly Antonioni's focus. As sweeping pans of the calm, dusty streets mix with the intense cacophony of the stock exchange, the director compares and contrasts the structure of city life with the still, silent aspects of a more natural environment, observing society's evolution into a technological monolith. L'ECLISSE is part of a trilogy of Antonioni films, along with LA NOTTE and L'AVVENTURA.