L'Eclisse (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)

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L'Eclisse (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 6, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1962
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Cannes 1962 - Jury Prize: Not Applicable

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User Ratings: 6,369
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
Apr 25, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- Returning to his recurrent themes of the desensitising impact of urban life and the hopelessness of love, Antonioni presents his bleakest portrait of the modern age ... Full Review
Radio Times
Aug 27, 2015
Rating: 5/5 -- An exhilarating slow dance of not-quite-colliding bodies. Full Review
Little White Lies
Aug 28, 2015
Vitti once again proves an ideal performer for Antonioni's thematics in what is probably her best role to date. Full Review
Variety
Jul 31, 2007
[I]t's Vitti's and Delon's performances that make it possible to keep watching as the film paints an increasingly bleak but beautiful picture of modern life.
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 18, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- There is intellectual rigour, cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo's discombobulating use of angles and aspect and that superb no-show last scene. Full Review
Irish Times
Mar 2, 2016
[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
Mar 1, 2005

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.

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