The vitality Vitti displays makes her absence deeply felt in the film's infamously ambiguous final scenes.
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07/31/07
The Eclipse (1962)
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Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 13
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Michaelangelo Antonioni's L'ECLISSE (ECLIPSE) is a visually stunning film with a strange, abstract plotline. Monica Vitti stars as Vittoria, a beautiful woman who, in the opening scene of the movie, dumps her boring boyfriend Riccardo... [More]
Starring: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Vitti's elegant languor is contrasted with the cacophony of the Rome stock exchange, which is the director's metaphor for the madness of unrestrained capitalism.
07/31/07
The characters' emotional twilight is unsettlingly conveyed by this piece of celluloid mood music.
07/31/07
Vitti once again proves an ideal performer for Antonioni's thematics in what is probably her best role to date.
07/31/07
Top Critic One watches -- and, perhaps more importantly, hears -- the modern world through his rendering of emotion, architecture, chaos, boredom, silence, and incommunicability.
08/29/06
Anyone disenchanted with the vacuity of later Antonioni will find the seeds of their dissatisfaction well-rooted in the mannerism and facile anguish evident here.
01/26/06
All there is to the drama -- a prolonged detailed illustration of the moody surrender of the woman to a rare and elusive love. This takes, for its full illumination, a few minutes over two hours.
05/10/05
Top Critic ...sit back, suppress the subtitles so they don't distract you from the images and let the 125-minute movie suspend and substitute your consciousness like the moon passing in front the sun.
04/21/05
Top Critic Because Antonioni shoots characters and places in ways that make them look unfamiliar, the impact makes the slow pacing and lack of clarity not just endurable, but ecstatic.
03/29/05
while one feels the passion that Antonioni puts into his movies, one also gets the slightest sense of a wish that he'd go ahead and grow up a little already
03/21/05
[In] Antonioni's version of science fiction, he allows the incredible to be implied.
12/27/02
The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's loose trilogy (preceded by L'Avventura and La Notte), this 1961 film is conceivably the best in Antonioni's career, but significantly it has the least consequential plot.
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July 31, 2007:
Remembering Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, who gave the world such influential films as L'Avventura, Blow-Up, and The Passenger, died Monday at the age of 94. More...
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