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La notte (The Night)

La notte

1961

Michelangelo Antonioni

Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki ...

7.8

4,712

Drama. Romance In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his wife Lydia Pontano visits the place where she lived many years ago. In the night, they go to a night-club, and later to a party in the mansion of the tycoon Mr. Gherardini. Along the night, Giovanni flirts with Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of the host, and then he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is not the situation so much as it is the intimations of personal feelings, doubts and moods that are the substance of the film"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Antonioni never made anything better than 'La Notte' (...) superbly shot in black and white by Gianni Di Venanzo, the key cinematographer of his time."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] repeats many of the melancholic themes of its predecessor (...) The results are somewhat more mixed, though on the whole the performances are better"	NEU
United States	Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"As with any cubist construction, Antonioni's movie creates something new and unfamiliar from its pieces, and not all of the pieces seem to fit."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The romantic conflicts (...) come to life in a visually dazzling yet psychologically dislocating pageant of clashing architectural styles."	POS
United States	Jordan Cronk Slant	"There’s nothing behind the images in the work of this filmmaker; rather, the frame itself is pregnant with meaning (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Sam Weisberg Village Voice	"'La Notte' still stands as a sublime examination of love and death (...) Ennui and eroticism make an oddly alluring combo"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"'La Notte' is every bit as technically accomplished as 'L'Aventura', with Gianni Di Venanzo's camera following the action with meticulous fluidity (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"It's impossible to discern the relevance of this kind of film-making, which is doubtless why nobody (including Antonioni) practises it any more."	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"The meaning of Antonioni’s work is contained almost entirely in the painful precision of its images (...) The movie is gorgeous, but its import ain’t pretty."	POS

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