L'Eclisse

L'Eclisse
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichelangelo Antonioni
Written byMichelangelo Antonioni
Tonino Guerra
Elio Bartolini
Ottiero Ottieri
Produced byRobert and Raymond Hakim
StarringAlain Delon
Monica Vitti
Francisco Rabal
Louis Seigner
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Music byGiovanni Fusco
Distributed byCineriz
Release date
  • 12 April 1962 (1962-04-12)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
English
Box office305 million (in Italy)

L'Eclisse (English: "The Eclipse") is a 1962 Italian romantic drama film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Filmed on location in Rome and Verona, the story follows a young woman (Vitti) who pursues an affair with a confident young stockbroker (Delon). Antonioni attributed some of his inspiration for L'Eclisse to when he filmed a solar eclipse in Florence.[1] The film is considered the last part of a trilogy and is preceded by L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961).[2][3][4]

L'Eclisse won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.[5] Described by Martin Scorsese as the boldest film in the trilogy, it is one of the director's more acclaimed works. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[6]

  1. ^ Chatman, Seymour; Duncan, Paul (2004). Michelangelo Antonioni: The Investigation. Taschen. p. 84. ISBN 9783822830895.
  2. ^ Gazetas, Aristides (2008). An introduction to world cinema. London: McFarland. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7864-3907-2.
  3. ^ Wakeman, John (1988). World Film Directors: 1945-1985. H. W. Wilson. p. 65. ISBN 9780824207632.
  4. ^ Cameron, Ian Alexander (1971). Antonioni. Praeger. p. 105.
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes: L'Eclisse". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

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