L'eclisse

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L'Eclisse
Directed by	Michelangelo Antonioni
Produced by	Raymond Hakim Robert 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 theatrical) Times Film Corporation (US theatrical) The Criterion Collection (Region 1 DVD)
Release date(s)	12 April 1962 2 May 1962
Running time	118 min
Country	Italy / France
Language	Italian English
Preceded by	La notte
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L'eclisse ("The Eclipse") is a 1962 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is considered the last of a trilogy that also comprises L'avventura and La notte. The film tells the story of a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who from July 10 to September 10, 1961 has a summer romance with an energetic young stockbroker, Piero (Alain Delon). They are unable to form a steady relationship and in the end (most likely) fail to meet as agreed upon at 8:00 in the evening on the suburban street corner of Viale del Ciclismo and Viale della Tecnica in the Eur, a modern neighbourhood south of Rome where Vittoria lives.

L'eclisse won the Jury Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm).

[edit] External links

• L'Eclisse at the Internet Movie Database
• Criterion Collection essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Essay on L'Eclisse
• Michelangelo Antonioni's L'eclisse - A broken piece of wood, a matchbook, a woman, a man by David Saul Rosenfeld

v • d • e Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Cronaca di un amore (Chronicle of a Love, 1950) • I vinti (The Vanquished, 1952) • La signora senza camelie (The Lady Without Camelias, 1953) • L'amore in città (1953, segment "Tentato suicido") • Le amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955) • Il grido (The Outcry, 1957) • L'avventura(The Adventure, 1960) • La notte(The Night, 1961) • L'eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962) • Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert, 1964)• I tre volti (Three Faces of a Woman, 1965, segment "Il provino") • Blowup (1966) • Zabriskie Point (1970) • Chung Kuo (China, 1972) • Professione: reporter (The Passenger, 1975) • Il mistero di Oberwald (The Mystery of Oberwald, 1981) • Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman, 1982) • Beyond the Clouds (Par Dela Les Nuages, 1995) • Eros (2004, segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose")

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