L' Eclisse (1962)

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone. A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Monica Vitti leaves her much-older lover Francisco Rabal in favor of arrogant young stockbroker Alain Delon. All they have in common is sex, but they make an effort to sustain the relationship on an intellectual level. The action--or lack of it--is played out in the tempestuous Borsa section of Rome. Eclipse (originally L'Eclisse), Antonioni's follow-up to the equally slow-and-steady L'Aventura, La Notte was the winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes. Unlike the other two above-mentioned films, Eclipse hasn't remained in as high esteem as it was once held.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Writing ...

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s name seems to have fallen somewhat into disrepute in US film culture over the last several decades, his main concerns – alienation and the collapse of communication – the subject of a collective yawn. Once seen as the cinema’s most adept observer of alienation as the dominant tone of postwar industrial civilisation, Antonioni…