L'Eclisse

Eclipse (original title: L'Eclisse) is an Italian movie - French black and white directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1962 . the film follows a young woman ( Monica Vitti ) that separates from her partner and has a relationship with a stockbroker ( Alain Delon ), the incarnation of the world materialisticcontemporary. This is the third part of a trilogy including Antonioni L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961). He was awarded the Special Jury Prize at theCannes Film Festival in 1962 where he was also nominated for the Palme d'Or . Eclipse is considered an important work, including the aesthetic treatment of the urban environment.

Summary

 * 1 Overview
 * 2 Description
 * 3 Data Sheet
 * 4 Distribution
 * 5 Awards
 * 6 External links

Synopsis [ edit | edit the code ]
At Rome, Vittoria is a complex woman, worried. It is very different from her mother, who thinks only enrich the stock market, and Piero, who helps others get rich and live in an accelerated pace. Vittoria walks in the modern city with the curiosity of someone who wants more than just being rich, and has a poetic sense of life. Piero is its opposite, and their meeting will come out very delicate feelings.

Description [ edit | edit the code ]
This film can be particularly noted for scenes shot in an exchange where we see the crazy energy expended by officers shouting to sell or buy for a meager result: the stock market rises on the first day and the second falls sharply. And Piero can not confessing this finding in Vittoria: there is nothing to do, and no one knows where the money lost.

Eclipse is also notable for the way Antonioni films Vittoria walking alone on the main streets of this Italian city, with a photographic approach to modern architecture: angles, complex arrangements, clean and empty lines framed succeed through his gaze.

This film, like other works of Antonioni ( The Red Desert, for example), including deals with the lack of communication of people in the contemporary world. The film begins in fact by breaking Vittoria with her fiancé, without being able to explain why or how long she no longer loves. She can not admit it to her mother, who does not listen. Later, during her affair with Piero, she told it she would not be able to love or to love him better. He does not understand, he does not see the problems that arises Vittoria.

Eclipse is both a movie in aesthetic highly sought after, especially from the perspective of urban views and the figure of Vittoria, and a movie on important philosophical aim, with this questioning of reality and the need to love, the complexity of human relationships.

This film is to bring films by Michelangelo Antonioni Night in 1961 and The Red Desert in 1964, as they deal with similar themes and main actress Monica Vitti .

Data Sheet [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Title: Eclipse
 * Original title: L'Eclisse
 * Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
 * Scenario: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra , Ottiero Ottieri and Elio Bartolini
 * Production: Raymond Hakim and Robert Hakim
 * Music: Giovanni Fusco
 * Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo, assisted by Pasquale De Santis (camera operator)
 * Editing: Eraldo Da Roma
 * Design: Piero Poletto
 * Costumes: Bice Brichetto and Gitt Magrini
 * Country of Origin: Italy - France
 * Format: Black & White - Mono
 * Genre: Drama
 * Duration: 118 minutes
 * Release date: 1962

Distribution [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Alain Delon Piero
 * Monica Vitti : Vittoria
 * Francisco Rabal Riccardo
 * Louis Seigner : Ercoli
 * Lilla Brignone : Mother Vittoria
 * Rossana Rory Anita
 * Mirella Ricciardi : Marta

Awards [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Special Jury Prize (tied with The Trial of Joan of Arc of Robert Bresson ) to the 1962 Cannes Film Festival