L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection

L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
by Michelangelo Antonioni

L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Louis Seigner, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

Movie Reviews of L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Be careful what you assume
Summary: 5 Stars

This film rates five stars almost inspite of its snail's pace and lack of narrative development. It does so because the film is implicitly about the deconstruction of typical film narrative techniques. Take the brilliant opening sequence, for instance. A man and a woman in a lamplit room. You'd assume its evening, but then the woman walks over to the window and draws back the curtain a bit, and its daytime and raining. And it goes from there, the film constantly revealing things that are contrary from what you'd assume according to traditional narrative techniques, e.g., establishing shots or voice-overs or dialogue that reveals information about characters. Antonioni is showing us the falsity of all these techniques by forcefully abandoning them. The conclusion of the film is equally brilliant, almost as if the camera had misunderstood the characters, who agree to meet at 8pm at "the usual place." We go to where we assume that "usual place" is, but they never show. It's really a great joke on filmmaking, given a foreboding twist by the hint of nuclear holocaust. It echoes the mushroom clowd-like image of the water tower glimpsed rather jarringly during the opening sequence. For Antonioni, it's a fine poetic device symbolising the destructiveness of human relations. In between these sequences, L'Eclisse tries your patience, but it continually makes brilliant use of interior spaces and audience assumptions about what's going on. It colours your view of all other film narratives and their devices, and therein lies it greatness.
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The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on modern malaise, which began with L'avventura, L'eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon).
Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse rolls over you and wraps you in its stylish embrace. The plot, such as it is, follows Vittoria (luscious Monica Vitti, The Red Desert) as her engagement falls apart and she slowly falls into a giddy but anxious affair with Piero (Alain Delon, Le Samourai, Purple Noon), a trader in Rome's stock exchange. Like Ingmar Bergman (Scenes from a Marriage, Persona), Antonioni examines the nuances of human relationships--but where Bergman is dense and dialogue-driven, Antonioni is spare and visual (there's maybe a page of dialogue in the first fifteen minutes of L'Eclisse). Every frame is like an exquisite black and white photograph, yet there's nothing static about this movie. It's fluid, sleek, and graceful, achieving its own kind of visual music. L'Eclisse contrasts opposing elements: Light and shadow, noise and silence, laughter and death, love and money, desire and dissatisfaction. Critics often describe the movie as a portrait of modern alienation, but they focus too much on Vittoria herself; while she finds her own life wanting, all around her Antonioni's camera captures a much larger world, full of as much vitality as despair, as much hope as loss. This is a movie essential to anyone's understanding of what movies can be. --Bret Fetzer

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