Red Desert (1964)

Name: Red Desert (1964)
Genre: Drama
Released: September 2, 2011
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris

2011

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Connoisseur Video Collection | Release Date: September 2, 2011 | Not Rated

Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris

Summary: Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wanderingMichelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. (The Criterion Collection)… Expand

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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Michael Atkinson

Aug 31, 2011

Intimations of infection loom (ships pass waving polio quarantine flags) and sexual games are played, but Antonioni was then the most obsessively compositional filmmaker alive, and the movie is all about the scary, foggy, metaphysical negative spaces. Read full review

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jameslucasutley

Sep 26, 2015

Bare long shots and mist-filled frames give insight into the protagonist's alienation from the workings of her modern industrial environment. Michelangelo Antonioni is a genius filmmaker; he understands the art form greatly, and it shows in his work.

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lasttimeisaw

Mar 19, 2015

I have hitherto watched 7 and ⅓ of Antonioni’s films, the ⅓ is referred to EROS (2004, 6/10), so I think I may entitle to attest that it does take time to appreciate his oeuvre and subdue the often wayward elusiveness in his storytelling.

RED DESERT is prominent because it is Antonioni’sI have hitherto watched 7 and ⅓ of Antonioni’s films, the ⅓ is referred to EROS (2004, 6/10), so I think I may entitle to attest that it does take time to appreciate his oeuvre and subdue the often wayward elusiveness in his storytelling.

RED DESERT is prominent because it is Antonioni’s first colour feature, and remarkably the first one has already been able to stun the world with its unique palette aesthetics, with “Red” in the title, one might assume the film would be a torrid emotional roller-coaster with desire and energy, but what the film actually presents is the consuming mental malady in the budding industrialism, set in Ravenna, our protagonist is Giuliana (Antonioni’s regular muse Vitti), a married woman with a proclivity of mental unstableness due to an accident which never be disclosed to viewers. Her husband Ugo (Chionetti) is the manager of a petrol-chemical plant, so she often wanders in the drab surroundings with her son (Bartoleschi).

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