La Notte (The Night)
0, 115 minutes, Rated PG
Following his masterpiece, L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger, Blow-Up) confirmed his rank as Italy's master auteur with this compelling portrait of marital dissolution in upper-class Milan.
Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8112) brilliantly plays Giovanni, a successful novelist who wanders lost and bored between book launches and bouts of promiscuity, the meaningless magnified as industrialized Milan multiplies around him. His wife Lidia, played with morose indifference by Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim), coldly accepts her husband's infidelity, questioning her commitment to her marriage, and her life.
The couple drifts apart in the course of a day and night, their fleeting conversations barely registering with other. Finally, Mastroianni tries to seduce a beautiful young woman - played by Monica Vitti (L'Avventurra, The Red Desert) - at a party for the rich and famous, leading him to ponder the true depth of his love for his wife.
- Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni [4],
- Starring:
- Jeanne Moreau [12], Marcello Mastroianni [12], Maria Pia Luzi [1], Monica Vitti [5], Bernhard Wicki [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Language and Sound:
- Italian Dolby Digital Stereo
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