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L'eclisse

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.
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Time Out
Time Out
"Retains a bleak and dreamlike tone that you won't find anywhere else."  POS
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Radio Times
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
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Variety
Variety
"Vitti once again proves an ideal performer for Antonioni's thematics in what is probably her best role to date." POS
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The Guardian
The Guardian
"Languorous, mysterious and quite fascinating."  POS
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Time Out
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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Murder Unincorporated
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Hiroshi Noguchi
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