L’eclisse
L’eclisse • 2h 6m
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1962 • France, Italy
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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L’ECLISSE Commentary
This audio commentary, recorded in 2004, features Richard Peña, former program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City and a professor at Columbia University.
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Elements of Landscape
In the following piece, Italian film critic and scholar Adriano Aprà and longtime Michelangelo Antonioni friend and collaborator Carlo di Carlo discuss the director and his vision for L’ECLISSE. The interviews were conducted in Rome in 2004.
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The Eye That Changed Cinema
This documentary, made in 2001 by Sandro Lai, chronicles the career of director Michelangelo Antonioni, from his documentary beginnings in the 1950s to the opening of the museum dedicated to him in Ferrara, Italy, in the mid-1990s.
