L'eclisse
3,898
Drama. Romance
In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.
Author | Review | ||
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United Kingdom | Time Out | "Retains a bleak and dreamlike tone that you won't find anywhere else." | POS |
United Kingdom | Radio Times | "Returning to his recurrent themes of the desensitising impact of urban life and the hopelessness of love, Antonioni presents his bleakest portrait of the modern age" | POS |
United States | Variety | "Vitti once again proves an ideal performer for Antonioni's thematics in what is probably her best role to date." | POS |
United Kingdom | The Guardian | "Languorous, mysterious and quite fascinating." | POS |
United Kingdom | Time Out | "Anyone disenchanted with the vacuity of later Antonioni will find the seeds of their dissatisfaction well-rooted in the mannerism and facile anguish evident here." | NEU |
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