La notte
La notte • 2h 2m
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1961 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter. Moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances make LA NOTTE an indelible illustration of romantic and social deterioration.
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Adriano Aprà and Carlo di Carlo on LA...
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Giuliana Bruno on LA NOTTE
In this interview, conducted in 2012, Giuliana Bruno, a professor at Harvard University’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, discusses the narrative role that architecture plays in LA NOTTE.
