L'Eclisse Reviews

Vittoria (Monica Vitti) leaves Riccardo (Francisco Rabal), her companion of four years, and becomes involved with Piero (Alain Delon), a broker working for her mother. They fall in love but realize they have little in common, so they bury their fears by making love and decide to continue the relationship as long as it will last. This was the third in a series of similarly styled films from Michelangelo Antonioni, the others being L'AVVENTURA (1960), which first brought him international acclaim, and LA NOTTE (1961), all starring the enigmatic heroine Vitti as the capricious, love-weary blonde. It is not for the plot that one watches an Antonioni film; there is too little of it to be of much interest. Rather one watches--and, perhaps more importantly, hears--the modern world through his rendering of emotion, architecture, chaos, boredom, silence, and incommunicability. In Italian with English subtitles.