Discs, cases and booklets are in excellent condition. Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the michelangelo antonioni directed movie via subscription can be a huge. Fancy watching l eclisse on your tv, phone, or tablet. Winner of the special jury prize at the 15th cannes film festival and deemed the final film in a trilogy from director michelangelo antonioni, leclisse is sequentially both a dissertation and composition about pleasure and romantic attachment. Rather than alienation, though, one might find the common theme to be a pessimistic meditation on the possibility of romantic love in our modern civilization. Leclisse official trailer 50th anniversary restoration. Vittoria monica vitti breaks off an affair with a writer, riccardo francisco rabal, and begins a summer romance with an energetic young stockbroker, piero alain delon. Spoiler warning this feature gives away the ending of the film. M ichelangelo antonioni s mysterious and disquieting 1962 film l eclisse the eclipse is rereleased in uk cinemas for the first time in 10 years. It is widely recognized that michelangelo antonionis film leclisse is a late italian neorealist critique of the alienating effects of capitalist reification, mass society, mechanization, dysfunctional gender roles and urban living in cold war rome.
Antonioni s l eclisse feels poorly formed in the sense that im not exactly sure what antonioni was trying to convey with his modernist, threadbare film full of the usual antonioni themes alienation and malaise brought on by society and its seemly oppressive landscapes of ominous architecture. And then comes the very final image of l eclisse, which. Michelangelo antonioni was born in 1912 into a middleclass family and grew up in bourgeois surroundings of the italian province. Although leclisse was perhaps antonionis most uncompromising to popular film conventions work, by this time his prestige was so great that the film was nominated for the cannes film festival palm dor. This distinctive interrogative gaze of antonionis camera is paralleled by the gaze of vittis charactersclaudia in lavventura, vittoria in leclisse, giuliana in red desert. Jun 09, 2014 this distinctive interrogative gaze of antonionis camera is paralleled by the gaze of vittis charactersclaudia in lavventura, vittoria in leclisse, giuliana in red desert. Leclisse tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. If you dont like film as art, you will be completely lost by the architectural cityscape ending montage, and the lack of traditional film closure.
I was born in the mid1960s, only a couple of months after michelangelo antonioni had completed a cycle of four films which made waves in the international film scene. A second disc contains a 56 minute documentary the eye that changed cinema about antonionis film career and life, as well as elements of landscape, which is a new, 22 minute film about antonioni and the movie, leclisse, featuring the film critic adriano apra. This is not a light evening of movie entertainment, but it is film making at its nonverbal, eloquent best. The bluray features a new 1080p24hz highdefinition digital transfer on a duallayer disc. Leclisse trama cast recensione scheda del film di michelangelo antonioni con monica vitti, alain delon, lilla brignone, francisco rabal, rossana rory, mirella. Antonionis film about stockbrokers and urban alienation is like its protagonists. If its true that we take a particular interest in the culture of the era just before we were born then my enthusiasm for leclisse may be predetermined.
Frenzied scenes of the stock exchange provide a hub for this films seminal study of personal relationships in modern society. With this in mind, the films motifs seem familiar again antonioni employs a cold, unromantic view of life and love centered on a dubious heroine. Lidia then breaks off a piece of the wall of the abandoned building, resembling perhaps wood, plaster, or a shard of rusted metal, an act analogous to what vittoria will later do with the broken piece of wood in the next chapter, leclisse, of antonionis single film. Michelangelo antonionis leclisse a broken piece of wood. Leclisse appeared in the 1980s on vhs, but has until fairly recently been available only on unwatchable bootlegged versions. Michelangelo antonioni furthers the ambitious efforts of his two preceding films with l eclisse, making it a fitting conclusion to his early60s trilogy. The 2004 criterion collection dvd edition of leclisse is among the most exemplary attempts to return antonioni to us, a release compelling new readings of the film. With this in mind, the film s motifs seem familiar again antonioni employs a cold, unromantic view of life and love centered on a dubious heroine. Michelangelo antonionis leclisse is one of the most disturbing films about life and relationships in the mid20th century. In una mattina di luglio, linquieta vittoria lascia il compagno, architetto, che non ama piu. Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the michelangelo antonionidirected movie via subscription can be a huge. But i had arrived after seeing antonionis eclipse that not all conventional moviemaking and ways to tell narrative, especially on film as they traditionally are, his.
Lavventura1960 was directed by michelangelo antonioni. Antonioni 19122007, whose fascination with mediated reality only deepened over time, was a restless experimenter with composition, camera movement. Michelangelo antonioni, born in 1912 in ferrare, remains one the most important and inspiring figure of the history of cinema, along with murnau, godard, kurosawa, kubrick or bergman. The film is beautifully shot by luciano tovoli in france, spain and north africa and intimates as much about the. Antonioni the adventure 1960 italy span sub video dailymotion. Filmed on location in rome and verona, the story follows a young woman vitti who pursues an affair with a confident young stockbroker delon. L avventura1960 was directed by michelangelo antonioni. Its beautifully shot in the localities of rome and verona, but what particularly sets l eclisse apart from the previous movies is the directness of its politics, such as the shallowness of materialism. Trova trailer, recensioni e tutte le informazioni su leclisse di michelangelo antonioni. If he started to make documentaries and feature films akin to the italian neorealism trend e. Architecture is a major character in leclisse, as prominent in the scenario as any of the trio of vittoria, riccardo and piero. Will ship items together, wrapped in bubble wrap to avoid any damage while in transit. Vittoria drifts downtown and into a love affair with her mothers young stockbroker, pierre alain delon.
Oct 11, 2011 the most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans daniel amen tedxorangecoast duration. The eye that changed cinema 2001, a fiftysixminute documentary exploring the directors life and career elements of landscape, a twentytwominute piece from 2005 about antonioni and leclisse, featuring italian film critic adriano apra and longtime antonioni friend carlo di carlo plus. Each film includes a booklet featuring brief infoessays on the film. Antonioni author see all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Aug 27, 2015 m ichelangelo antonionis mysterious and disquieting 1962 film leclisse the eclipse is rereleased in uk cinemas for the first time in 10 years. Il loro addio e freddo, indolore, quanto il loro rapporto era stato apatico. The story surrounds the disappearance of annalea massari on an island off the coast of sicily. Leclisse di michelangelo antonioni 1962 frammenti di. It would be hard to overstate michelangelo antonionis influence on postwar cinema, architecture and design, fashion, and literature, even on modern conceptions of the intellectual and the erotic. Lavventura di michelangelo antonioni 1960 144 completo. Michelangelo antonionis leclisse a broken piece of. Indeed, the interiors, buildings and street furniture are often selfconsciously brought to the foreground in leclisse to suggest that the environment in which the characters exist is at least as important in the meaning of the action as the characters and their. A video essay on the visual storytelling in michelangelo antonionis 1962 feature film leclisse.
The criterion collection delivers an upgraded dualformat edition of michelangelo antonionis leclisse, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1. Using the architecture of rome as a backdrop for the couples doomed affair, antonioni reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes. Fancy watching leclisse on your tv, phone, or tablet. According to an antonioni obituary, the film systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time. Michelangelo antonioni furthers the ambitious efforts of his two preceding films with leclisse, making it a fitting conclusion to his early60s trilogy. Leclisse 1962 ecco una breve sintesi di leclisse film completo. Sep 06, 2014 this feature is not available right now. The emotional historiography of michelangelo antonionis l. M ichelangelo antonionis mysterious and disquieting 1962 film leclisse the eclipse is rereleased in uk cinemas for the first time in 10 years. Leclisse film completo, streaming ita, vedere, guardare. Michelangelo antonioni cavaliere di gran croce omri. The eclipse is a 1962 italian drama film written and directed by michelangelo antonioni and starring alain delon and monica vitti. The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans daniel amen tedxorangecoast duration.
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