La notte
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni / IT, FR, 1960 / 122 min.
Stylised drama about spiritual emptiness in the post-war period. Marcello Mastroianni plays Milanese writer Giovanni, suffering from writer’s block, Jeanne Moreau his alienated wife Lidia and Monica Vitti the bored flirt. This film inspired Ivo van Hove to create the play Antonioni Project: see the exhibition All About Theatre About Film.
In La notte, the attractively presented life of the Milanese elite – living in gleaming modern flats, men and women alike in bespoke suits, driving around the brand new orbital roads in sports cars – is deceptive; behind the façade of good taste, clinking ice cubes in the Campari and polite, cultivated conversation, lurks tedium.
Details
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Production year
1960
Country
IT, FR
Original title
La notte
Length
122 min.
Language
Italian, French, English
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
All About Theatre About Film
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