Red Desert
After a car accident, Giuliana (Monica Vitti), who’s married to a factory manager in Ravenna, Italy, feels increasingly strange and isolated. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in color follows in the…
L’Eclisse
The third part in the trilogy that began with L’Avventura (1960) is equally marked by existential angst, as Vittoria (Monica Vitti, who’s been a constant in all three films) ends…
La Notte
The second film in a trilogy that began with L’Avventura (1960) starts out with a couple (Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau) visiting a dying friend at a hospital in Milan; over…
L’Avventura: The Mystery of Anna
Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti. Photo: Cino del Duca The Cannes film festival is famous for its tumultuous screenings, but I wonder if there has ever been a change of…
Blowup: Don’t Analyze It to Death
Photo: MGM I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a film student and rediscovering it ten years later was a delight. Perhaps it is one of…