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La Notte

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La Notte (1961)

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Reviews Counted: 14

Fresh: 10

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 6.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: LA NOTTE, one of of a trilogy of films by Michaelangelo Antonioni that also includes L'AVVENTURA and L'ECLISSE, is a stand-out classic in the New Wave genre. Exploring the ennui of the Italian aristocracy, through a story of failing... LA NOTTE, one of of a trilogy of films by Michaelangelo Antonioni that also includes L'AVVENTURA and L'ECLISSE, is a stand-out classic in the New Wave genre. Exploring the ennui of the Italian aristocracy, through a story of failing marriage and the rise of industrialization, LA NOTTE draws a parallel between the growing absence of architectural aesthetics and the lack of human emotion in our modern, industrialized world. Wandering through dilapidated streets of Milan, stopping and staring aimlessly out at the world, seemingly in deep thought, is strikingly beautiful Lydia (Jeanne Moreau). Her husband, Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), is a handsome man and a popular author whose newest publication is being celebrated with a signing. Later that night, when Lydia finally decides to come home, she is unresponsive to Giovanni, and acts bored and aloof. Some of the friction between the couple is attributed to concern for their dear friend, Tomasso, who they visit in the hospital where he is dying, but it's unclear what he signifies to either of them. Giovanni takes Lydia out on the town--to a nightclub where they watch African dancers perform acrobatic cabaret acts with full wine glasses--but still she is bored, so he takes her on to a friend's elegant cocktail party, where they both stay all night, drifting from one flirtation to the next, uninterested in each other. An emotional and inconclusive conversation between the couple ends out the night as the sun rises, leaving viewers with a strange, vacant, longing feeling. [More]

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenwriter: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Ennio Flaiano
Composer: Giorgio Gaslini

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Antonioni's film feels like one very long, not entirely rewarding night of despair.

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03/13/08
Anton Bitel
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It's impossible to discern the relevance of this kind of film-making, which is doubtless why nobody (including Antonioni) practises it any more.

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01/26/06
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A beautifully filmed but painfully slow-moving study of dysfunctional relationships courtesy of Antonioni.

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05/24/03
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Everything seemed as superficial as the main characters.

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08/05/07
Dennis Schwartz
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This problematic film serves more as a transition for Antonioni than anything else.

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08/29/06
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Stylistically, La Notte intrigues but, in the realm of ideas, I think the movie begins to plod and drag halfway through

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08/27/06
Jay Antani
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Remarkable drama, with rich visuals

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08/22/06
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07/05/05
Emanuel Levy
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Too sensitive and subtle for apt description are his pictorial fashionings of a social atmosphere, a rarefied intellectual climate, a psychologically stultifying milieu...Even boredom is made interesting by him.

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05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
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Andy Klein
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La Notte is a slow and methodical film, like all of Antonioni's work, but La Notte's wandering first act makes it hard to embrace all-out.

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07/26/02
David Poland
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Cold, brutal, lonely; a modern world where the old codes of civilization and behavior no longer have a place.

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04/20/01
G. Allen Johnson
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Whatever one's occasional misgivings, this feature comes from what is widely considered to be Antonioni's richest period, and evidence of his stunning mastery is available throughout.

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04/20/01
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July 31, 2007: Remembering Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, who gave the world such influential films as L'Avventura, Blow-Up, and The Passenger, died Monday at the age of 94. More...

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