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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Stars: |
Monica Vitti |
| Actors: |
Lilla Brignone |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Drama · Italian |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
045922110192 |
| Release Date: |
1962 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 3min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Italian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 2hr 5min
Release Company: Criterion Collection (March 15, 2005)
UPC: 037429202623 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 3min |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
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Professional Reviews
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(05/01/2005, p.83, Tim Lucas): "[A]rguably Antonioni's best....It's the film's stillness and precision that lingers in the memory..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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 com... |
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