Eclipse (1962 film)
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| Directed by | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Produced by | Robert and Raymond Hakim |
| Written by | Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra Elio Bartolini Ottiero Ottieri |
| Starring | Alain Delon Monica Vitti Francisco Rabal Louis Seigner |
| Music by | Giovanni Fusco |
| Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| Editing by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Distributed by | Cineriz (Italy) Times Film Corporation (USA) The Criterion Collection |
| Release date(s) | 12 April 1962 (Italy) 2 May 1962 (France) |
| Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | Italy / France |
| Language | Italian English |
Eclipse (Italian: L'eclisse) is a 1962 Italian film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. The film is considered the last part of a trilogy which was preceded by L'avventura and La Notte.[1][2][3][4] In Martin Scorsese's documentary My Voyage to Italy, the director called Eclipse the boldest film in Antonioni's trilogy.
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[edit] Plot
At dawn on July 10, 1961 a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), breaks off her affair with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal), a writer, and hesitantly begins a summer romance with Piero (Alain Delon), an energetic young stockbroker. They are unable to form a steady relationship and shortly before sunset at 20:00, September 10, 1961 they seemingly fail to meet as agreed on the corner of Viale del Ciclismo and Viale della Tecnica by the construction site of a new apartment building in the Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR), a modern suburban neighbourhood south of Rome where Vittoria lives.
[edit] Cast
- Alain Delon as Piero
- Monica Vitti as Vittoria
- Francisco Rabal as Riccardo
- Louis Seigner as Ercoli
- Lilla Brignone as Vittoria's Mother
- Rosanna Rory as Anita (as Rossana Rory)
- Mirella Ricciardi as Marta[5]
[edit] Production
- Filming locations
- Rome Stock Exchange, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Verona, Veneto, Italy[6]
[edit] Reception
- Awards and nominations
L'eclisse won the Jury Special Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm).[7]
Director Martin Scorsese, in his documentary about Italian films, My Voyage to Italy, describes how the film haunted and inspired him as a young moviegoer, noting it seemed to him a "step forward in storytelling" and "felt less like a story and more like a poem." He adds that the ending is "a frightening way to end a film... but at the time it also felt liberating. The final seven minutes of Eclipse suggested to us that the possibilities in cinema were absolutely limitless."
[edit] References
- ^ "L'Eclisse". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ Gazetas, Aristides (2008). An introduction to world cinema. London: McFarland. p. 246. ISBN 9780786439072. http://books.google.com/books?id=CPuZ-2UtVRwC&pg=PA246.
- ^ Wakeman, John (1988). World Film Directors: 1945-1985. H. W. Wilson. p. 65. http://books.google.com/books?id=8aEYAAAAIAAJ.
- ^ Cameron, Ian Alexander (1971). Antonioni. Praeger. p. 105.
- ^ "Full cast and crew for L'Eclisse". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/fullcredits. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Filming locations for L'Eclisse". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/locations. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: L'eclisse". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3187/year/1962.html. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
[edit] External links
- L'eclisse at the Internet Movie Database
- L'Eclisse at AllRovi
- Antonioni's L'eclisse by David Saul Rosenfeld
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| Preceded by Mother Joan of the Angels |
Special Jury Prize, Cannes 1962 tied with The Trial of Joan of Arc |
Succeeded by Harakiri tied with The Cassandra Cat |
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