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• Drama
• Romance

• 1962
• Michelangelo Antonioni
• 120 mins
• PG

Summary

Final of Michelangelo Antonini's 60s trilogy, set in Rome. A young woman leaves her lover for a young stockbroker in this classic tale about how hard it is to form connections.

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Review

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

David Parkinson

The winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1962, this troubling, stylised film completed director Michelangelo Antonioni's "alienation trilogy". As in L'Avventura and La Notte, Monica Vitti is at the centre of events, here ending a passionless affair with the bookish Francisco Rabal to indulge in a fling with her mother's stockbroker, Alain Delon. Returning to his recurrent themes of the desensitising impact of urban life and the hopelessness of love, Antonioni presents his bleakest portrait of the modern age, with the famous seven-minute, 58-shot montage of cold, impersonal buildings symbolising the city's final victory over its inhabitants.

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7.6/10

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Cast

rolenameVittoriaMonica VittiPieroAlain DelonVittoria's motherLilla BrignoneRiccardoFrancisco RabalErcoliLouis SeignierAnitaRossana RoryMartaMirella Ricciardi

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rolenameDirectorMichelangelo Antonioni

Details

Theatrical distributor

Studio Canal

Released on

2015-08-28

Languages

English | Italian

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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