 
L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780029590
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780029593
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 15, 2005
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1962
Sales Rank: 36223
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The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise, which began with L’avventura, L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon).
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Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse rolls over you and wraps you in its stylish embrace. The plot, such as it is, follows Vittoria (luscious Monica Vitti, The Red Desert) as her engagement falls apart and she slowly falls into a giddy but anxious affair with Piero (Alain Delon, Le Samourai, Purple Noon), a trader in Rome's stock exchange. Like Ingmar Bergman (Scenes from a Marriage, Persona), Antonioni examines the nuances of human relationships--but where Bergman is dense and dialogue-driven, Antonioni is spare and visual (there's maybe a page of dialogue in the first fifteen minutes of L'Eclisse). Every frame is like an exquisite black and white photograph, yet there's nothing static about this movie. It's fluid, sleek, and graceful, achieving its own kind of visual music. L'Eclisse contrasts opposing elements: Light and shadow, noise and silence, laughter and death, love and money, desire and dissatisfaction. Critics often describe the movie as a portrait of modern alienation, but they focus too much on Vittoria herself; while she finds her own life wanting, all around her Antonioni's camera captures a much larger world, full of as much vitality as despair, as much hope as loss. This is a movie essential to anyone's understanding of what movies can be. --Bret Fetzer
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Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse (The Eclipse), his 1962 black and white capstone of his Alienation Trilogy that began with L'Avventura and continued with La Notte, is arguably a great film, but still a cut or two below its immediate predecessor, the indisputably brilliant La Notte, simply because it lacks the story and excellent portrayal of a human relationship that that earlier film has. It is, however, a superior film to L'Avventura, in that its sustains it sublime weirdness and disaffecting ... Read More
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L'Eclisse is shot in long takes in black/white. The picture and transfer is unearthly, it almost looks hyperreal! I find the visuals of L'Eclisse more interesting than the narrative (at least for now, I will re-watch it later). We follow Monica Vitti and Alain Delon in their attempt for a love affair. We also get some lively scenes from the stock exchange in Rome which are very exciting. The pace of the film is slow with long takes and not much dialogue - if you want action and a clear plot and message ... Read More
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L'Eclisse is essentially a love story, or at least an almost love story. Both lead actors are highly attractive and very little real conflict exists to keep them apart. Antonioni could have chosen more mundane circumstances if he simply wished to express the dullness of everyday life, or a lack of passion, or an inability to connect. Instead we are given two vibrant characters, the gorgeous blonde Vittoria, who dances and plays with dogs and laughs at drunkards, and the handsome ... Read More
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L'eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) is the conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy on malaise and the alienation of man in the modern world. It follows L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961), and tells the story of a young woman, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into another relationship with a young, materialistic, cocky, stockbroker, Piero (Alain Delon). Their doomed affair is set against the architecture of Rome, and amidst the crowded and chaotic Rome Stock ... Read More
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Slow, languid shots of blonde Monica Vitti as she strolls through an empty Italian marketplace. Remarkable closeups of the stunning Alain Delon. Breathtaking black and white overheads of the mesmerising Italian landscapes and Roman architecture.
This is not so much a movie as it is one beautiful postcard after another. The physical beauty of the two lead actors alone will have you enthralled. Monica Vitti (in a much better role than 'L'Avventura') plays a woman torn between two men. Alain Delon, ... Read More
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