126 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring Francisco Rabal, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Louis Seigner, Lilla Brignone
Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Italian Director Spotlight series, playing all through May. With L’ECLISSE, the spotlight is on Michelangelo Antonioni.
In Italian with English subtitles.
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.
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Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Italian Director Spotlight series, playing all through May. With L’ECLISSE, the spotlight is on Michelangelo Antonioni.
In Italian with English subtitles.
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.