L’ECLISSE

Showings

Castro Theatre Sat, Apr 28, 2018 1:30 PM
Film Info
Country:Italy
Year:1962
Running Time:126 min.
Language:Italian (with English subtitles)
Director:Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenwriter:Michelangelo Antonioni
Tonino Guerra
Ottiero Ottieri
Cast:Monica Vitti
Alain Delon
Francisco Rabal

Description

A tailspin at the Rome stock exchange serves as a backdrop for a love affair between a translator (Monica Vitti) and her mother’s stockbroker (Alain Delon). Antonioni’s evocation of anomie and alienation was never so exquisitely articulated as in L’ECLISSE. The final scene, in which suspense is built out of an increasingly unbearable absence, is justly famous.

“Of all my old films, L’ECLISSE is the one I like best,” Antonioni claimed in 1967. “From the point of view of style, it is the most rigorous and therefore the most successful. Also the most modern.”

Presented in 35 mm film.
Print from BFI
Courtesy of Janus