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La Notte|Jeanne Moreau

La Notte

Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni
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Overview

LA NOTTE, one of of a trilogy of films by Michaelangelo Antonioni that also includes L'AVVENTURA and L'ECLISSE, is a stand-out classic in the New Wave genre. Exploring the ennui of the Italian aristocracy, through a story of failing marriage and the rise of industrialization, LA NOTTE draws a parallel between the growing absence of architectural aesthetics and the lack of human emotion in our modern, industrialized world. Wandering through dilapidated streets of Milan, stopping and staring aimlessly out at the world, seemingly in deep thought, is strikingly beautiful Lydia (Jeanne Moreau). Her husband, Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), is a handsome man and a popular author whose newest publication is being celebrated with a signing. Later that night, when Lydia finally decides to come home, she is unresponsive to Giovanni, and acts bored and aloof. Some of the friction between the couple is attributed to concern for their dear friend, Tomasso, who they visit in the hospital where he is dying, but it's unclear what he signifies to either of them. Giovanni takes Lydia out on the town--to a nightclub where they watch African dancers perform acrobatic cabaret acts with full wine glasses--but still she is bored, so he takes her on to a friend's elegant cocktail party, where they both stay all night, drifting from one flirtation to the next, uninterested in each other. An emotional and inconclusive conversation between the couple ends out the night as the sun rises, leaving viewers with a strange, vacant, longing feeling.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Michelangelo Antonioni - Director
Rosy Mazzacurati
Jeanne Moreau
Marcello Mastroianni
Monica Vitti
Bernhard Wicki
Rosi Mazzacurati
Maria Pia Luzi
Giorno Negro
Guido Aimone Marsan
Giorgio Negro

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515108416
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: October 2013

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] gorgeously expressive monochrome photography. If you only ever see one '60s European navel-gazer, see this one." - 05/01/2008 Empire, p.159


4 stars out of 5 -- "Antonioni's slow-burn study of atrophied feelings mines martial crisis with minute focus." - 06/01/2008 Total Film, p.136


"For all the DOLCE VITA-era ambience, this endlessly suggestive masterpiece has hardly dated at all." - 05/01/2008 Sight and Sound, p.94


"[T]he meaning of Antonioni’s work is contained almost entirely in the painful precision of its images." -- Grade: B+ - 11/06/2013 A.V. Club


"Michelangelo Antonioni was a cinematic cubist. Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui." - 09/15/2016 Los Angeles Times

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