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| ACTORS: | Alain Delon, Monica Vitti |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 20 December, 1962 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Italian |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 037429202623 |
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Customer Reviews of L'Eclisse - Criterion Collection
sterile "When we say that the persons we approach are all potential characters, over whose faces pass expressions, from whose mouths come lines; that places are not just images but rythms, vibrations; that everyday events very often take on symbolic meanings ... this is, I think, a very special way of being in contact with reality. To lose this contact ... can mean sterility". <
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>These words come from the master himself, and Antonioni nowhere makes them more clear than he does in L'Eclisse. Set in the early sixties against the Milan stock exchange, we see events happen like through a corresponding filter on his camera. <
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>L'Eclisse's plot focuses on Piero (Alain Delon) and Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who feel attracted to each other. Antonioni's sterile camera registers the development of their affair, showing us how the two of them aren't able to derive full satisfaction from it. In the end both Piero and Vittoria don't care anymore to show up at their final date. We are left with empty shots of an empty street, the place where they were supposed to meet.
One of the best movies i ever saw
Ok, its a hard movie to watch. It cost me a bit to watch it entirely. it has not all the meaning that L'aventura has. but it's one of my favorite movies. if you have ever read the nietzsche theory about the lack of sense of humanity today, you will find it lively in here. L'eclisse is about a group of people living it. they dont know where theyre going, their live is empty and futile. and that is the greatness of this movie. all the characters go in circles around the money or nothing at all. and the ending... after the final part of l'aventura, this is my favorite ending of a movie (and i like this one more than the adventure). just see it for yourself. this movie made me feel bad (in the good sense). and the worst of it all, i felt bad seeing myself and humanity in screen. it made me understand the life on earth. watch it. see it for yourself. life is meaningless, and sad, and depressing. just like the eclipse.
Great movie, poor DVD
The most important thing about this DVD is the fluttering of light and shadow which afflicts approximately half the movie. Reminiscent of the fluttering of silent films, though less dramatic, this flaw in the print used by Criterion was enough to convince me not to buy the DVD, which I had eagerly awaited for many years. Considering the prices Criterion asks for its DVDs, one might have expected something much better.
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>The movie itself is luminous, beautiful, and a distinct departure from earlier Antonioni films which both fans and critics described as depicting the meaninglessness of modern life and the impossibility of communication between human beings. Here the story is not negative at all. A woman breaks up with her long-time lover, and, in the course of the film, meets another man with whom she begins a relationship that may or may not lead somewhere. Hence the title, THE ECLIPSE -- the eclipse of one man by another.
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>The images we see depict the woman's sense of liberation from the old relationship and also her uncertainty about the future. Fittingly, she says to the new man (Alain Delon), "I wish I didn't love you at all, or loved you much more."
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>Be prepared for a 14-minute segment devoted entirely to stockbrokers shouting bids in the Italian stock market. This was too much for me, and I skipped it in later viewings.
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>On the whole, one of Antonioni's very interesting earlier films, but marred so badly by fluttering in the image that I wouldn't pay $30 for it.
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>One question I have for people who saw L'Eclisse in theaters or earlier VHS: I have a clear memory of the film ending with the camera descending into the rain barrel which appeared several times during the film, and the word FINE coming out of the dark water. In the Criterion version, this doesn't happen. Monica Vitti walks out of the frame and we see a series of images of people, buses, light poles, etc. with the word FINE appearing beside a street light. This isn't how I remember the ending.