A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends. 7 out of 12 found this helpful.
Was this review helpful? imdb.com View IMDb information about film: L'Eclisse (1962) us.imdb.com Connect to IMDb information for this film lib.uwo.ca Reserve movie for a classroom screening Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? It's almost too precise and too self-aware. 28 out of 39 found this helpful. Report This . It has rich cinematography that has beautiful composition, but an gut- sinking emptiness. At the very least though, this one is better than L'Avventura. I was waiting for something to happen, and nothing happens.
it has a strange way of keeping the audience always in alert of something. I came into L'Eclisse wanting to love it because I love L'Avventura and Blowup but deliberately hard to connect to. How intently he gets inside Vittoria's head, and at the same time maintains a detachment despite the varying emotional contexts, is extraordinary, if highly personal. Themes of alienation, disconnection, romance without the romance and dealing with an ambiguous existential way of life.
For Industry Professionals. While Monica Vitti is indeed a beautiful and charismatic screen presence, watching her wander aimlessly for over two hours quickly loses its appeal (Though I'll take it over watching Jeanne Moreau wander aimlessly for over two hours in "La Notte").
Many people feel that Vitti was the most gloriously radiant, magnetically attractive film actress of the 1960s and 70s. a list of 15 titles Use the HTML below. Antonioni's 'L'Eclisse' depicts the emptiness and and meaningless of life in the post-Second World War world under the shadow of the nuclear threat. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It only takes a few films to become familiar with the methodic ways of Michelangelo Antonioni.
The last scene alone is totally unparalled in film history. On the other another aspect is that it could put off viewers not terribly familiar with Antonioni's psychology (which, like Scorsese for example, is at least consistent and engaging with the rest of the director's catalog of work). She is constantly gazing outside, she is like an electron trying to gain enough escape velocity to get away from the silent stagnant relationship she is in with Riccardo. In the suburb of Rome, the translator Vittoria (Monica Vitti) breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo (Francisco Rabal), after a troubled night. The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. The last fifteen minutes of the film were totally superfluous. There are long stretches of film with no dialogue whatever, just actors looking at each "meaningfully" or scenes of Italian city streets. From director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, Blowup), this film listed in the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die sounded interesting enough, I obviously had no idea about the concept or what it would be about, in a way that was a good thing, I like to surprised. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. Was this review helpful? 6 out of 7 found this helpful. In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
It is so slow that to continue watching it may sometimes require a conscious strain of will. Was this review helpful? The "African" scene also ranks as one of cinema's most striking moments. Was this review helpful? This film was made in 1962, a year after the Berlin crisis, and in the year of the Cuba crisis when we came very close to nuclear war between the USA and the USSR. My thought: Antonioni is challenging the audience with the same existential crisis that Vitti faced and then turned her back on. Was this review helpful? All this commentary done with the subtlety of the slowing growing suburbs that our leading lady lives in.
I can't imagine any film student not being advised to watch the last 10 minutes of L'Eclisse by a wise course teacher. The story is that of the dissolution of Vittoria's relationship with Riccardo and her attempt to take up with Piero, a young stock trader.
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. The subtitles were completely illegible, so I didn't get much out of it. You go outside after seeing this film, you feel the same way. 15 of 21 people found this review helpful. Like much of his work, L' Eclisse (1962) finds director Michelangelo Antonioni creating a slow, fragmented investigation about sight and perception, about people at odds with one another and the world that they inhabit, and left hopeless and weak as their internal thoughts and fears are projected outward, against the world, creating a void that sucks the life from everything, leaving only silence. Basically the tale sees Vittoria (Monica Vitti) having an imperfect relationship with staunch intellectual Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) and suffering a breakup, and soon after attracting romantic feelings from stockbroker Piero (Alain Delon). Was this review helpful? Her feelings are expressed in mostly abstract ways, via Antonioni's gorgeous visuals. Was this review helpful to you? When I used to recall this famous ending after the first time I had seen it, I remembered it without human beings.
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15 out of 21 found this helpful. If one is expecting a conventional narrative, character development, or a compelling story, L'eclisse is definitely not the right place to look. Occasional sparks of interest go nowhere, as in her quest to find the lost dog. Painful to watch the busiest life of the film being at the stock market while the rest of nature is desolate yet so picturesque. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. But we're alone. In fact, this so-called "love affair" would have probably been but the external shell of an emotional union between a man and a woman. Was this review helpful? We're thrown into a vague but disheartening scenario with depressed characters and just have to follow down that road. Not true. Was this review helpful?