| Record Number |
788311 |
| Title |
L'eclisse [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2018. |
| ©1962. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (126 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 12 cm. |
| Series |
World classics |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3847. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni ; original story by Michelangelo Antonioni and three others. |
| Performer note |
Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Alain Delon. |
| Summary Note |
L'Eclisse was the final film in Antonioni's informal trilogy of the modern malaise (following L'Avventura and La Notte), a series of films that redefined the concept of narrative cinema. Filmed in sumptuous black and white and full of scenes of lush, strange beauty, it tells the story of Vittoria (the beautiful Monica Vitti - Red Desert), a young woman who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal - Viridiana), then drifts into a relationship with a confident, ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon - Le Cercle Rouge). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for this doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of forming true connections amidst the meaninglessness of the modern world. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| Language note |
In Italian. English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Single women -- Drama |
| Young women -- Drama |
| Alienation (Social psychology) -- Drama |
| Upper class -- Italy -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Italy |
| Foreign language films |
| Single women -- Drama |
| Young women -- Drama |
| Alienation (Social psychology) -- Drama |
| Upper class -- Italy -- Drama |
| Rome (Italy) -- Drama |
| Rome (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Romance films. |
| Feature films. |
| Fiction films. |
| Foreign language films. |
| Added Author |
Antonioni, Michelangelo director,
screenwriter. |
| Vitti, Monica actor. |
| Delon, Alain, 1935- actor. |
| Rabal, Francisco, 1926-2001 actor. |
| Corporate Author |
Studiocanal production company. |
| Umbrella Entertainment distributor. |
| Added title |
L'eclisse (Motion picture : 1962) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F LECL |
