Starring Monica Vitti
4 Episodes
With her coolly magnetic performance in L’AVVENTURA, Monica Vitti (1931–2022) became the face of a new era of Italian cinema. Vitti lent her regal, striking beauty and effortless allure to three more films by director Michelangelo Antonioni, translating his ambitious ideas about modernity and alienation into subtle and complex characters in a collaboration that crowned her as one of art-house cinema’s essential icons.
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2:23:02Episode 1L’avventura
Episode 1
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1960 • France, Italy
Starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica VittiMichelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’AVVENTURA concerns the enigmatic di...
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La notte
Episode 2
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1961 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica VittiThis psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a n...
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L’eclisse
Episode 3
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1962 • France, Italy
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'avventura and La notte), L'eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts ...
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1:57:03Episode 4Red Desert
Episode 4
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1964 • Italy
Starring Monica Vitti, Richard HarrisMichelangelo 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 spirit...
