L’eclisse
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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.
Special Features
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Peña
- Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001), a fifty-six-minute documentary exploring the director’s life and career
- Elements of Landscape, a twenty-two-minute piece from 2005 about Antonioni and L’eclisse, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo
- PLUS: Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Special Features
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Peña
- Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001), a fifty-six-minute documentary exploring the director’s life and career
- Elements of Landscape, a twenty-two-minute piece from 2005 about Antonioni and L’eclisse, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo
- PLUS: Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
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Cast
- Alain Delon
- Piero
- Monica Vitti
- Vittoria
- Francisco Rabal
- Riccardo
- Lilla Brignone
- Vittoria’s mother
- Louis Seigner
- Stockbroker
- Rossana Rory
- Anita
- Mirella Ricciardi
- Marta
Credits
- Director
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Story and screenplay
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Story and screenplay
- Tonino Guerra
- with collaboration from
- Elio Bartolini
- with collaboration from
- Ottiero Ottieri
- Produced by
- Robert Hakim
- Produced by
- Raymond Hakim
- Photography by
- Gianni di Venanzo
- Editing
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Music
- Giovanni Fusco
- Sound
- Claudio Maielli
- Sound assistant
- Mario Bramonti
- Assistant directors
- Gianni Arduini
- Assistant directors
- Franco Indovina
- Production manager
- Danilo Marciani
- Set design
- Piero Poletto
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