L'Eclisse
L'Eclisse
NR | 20 December 1962 (USA)
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This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
antoniocasaca123 I think it becomes clear in the film that the relationship between Monica Vitti and Alain Delon will also fail, so distant are the ways of being each other, she (apparently) being happy with trivial and simple things and not giving value to money, he extremely "scrambled" and materialistic. It's a film with the Antonioni brand, undoubtedly, there are all the elements that characterize the films of this excellent filmmaker. The filming is magnificent, as always. Even so, I think the film is slightly below other films of the same as "la notte", "il desert rosso", "blowup" or "zabriskie point".
Lee Eisenberg The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy about alienation in the modern world is about a woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves her lover (Francisco Rabal) for a materialistic stockbroker (Alain Delon). A couple of scenes stood out to me: In the stock exchange, people stand around calling out numbers and trading. At one point, someone says "We're gambling." This not only emphasizes the vacuously hedonistic nature of the stock exchange, but it's as though they're gambling with the economy, and thus the country's future.While visiting her neighbor who has a second house in Kenya, Vittoria dresses in traditional Kenyan clothes and dances around. In this hectic, over-urbanized world that she inhabits, this is the only connection to nature that she can have.The end sequence. It features none of the main cast members, just images and music. The city - and therefore, artificiality - has completely supplanted people.I recommend "L'eclisse", as I do every other Antonioni movie that I've seen.
Khosrau "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."Humans always seek for contentment by anyways possible, by telling lies to themselves and believe in those lies, they can also make the destroyed objects to seem intact although they know deep inside the object is broken and unfixable, we rather choose to live a happy lie rather than a sad and depressive reality. The relationship between the two main characters was just another product of human lies but as it seems that both of those characters realised the reality of their relationship and how shallow and empty it was as the watcher will keep looking for the characters to show up in the final scene while viewing the places the two have been together and while the watcher is anticipating for their presence you can see Antonioni's viewing the life as a miserable empty destructed world with the will of only seeking more destruction.The final scene of this picture exposes the reality of our world, the reality of us humans and our relationships with each others.
zachswee Incredible movie, totally surprised me. I wasn't prepared for it. About isolation, and not communicating, and feeling alone and lost. Beautiful to look at, and the ending was brilliant, I've never seen an ending as bold as that.I thought the acting was really great, especially the expressions of the lead actress, and the scenes in the stock exchange were very interesting too. Everything in this movie fits in with the themes of not communicating and feeling alone even though you're among people. Really great movie.I recommend you also watch the commentary by Martin Scorsese about this film. He has a lot to add about the themes and the mis-en-scene.