The Barbican Theatre, London is presenting a focus on three films by Italian modernist director Michelangelo Antonioni between Saturday, 5th and Sunday, 20th February 2011.
The themes of all three films concern the alienation of man in the modern world, and their stylistic similarities demonstrate a radical style of filmmaking, which challenged conventional forms of narrative cinema in the early 1960s.
L’avventura
Antonioni’s first international success, L’avventura proved popular with audiences around the world. A wealthy Italian woman goes missing on a yachting trip to a deserted Mediterranean island, and while her boyfriend and best friend search for her, they fall in love.
La Notte
Following his breakthrough success in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Marcello Mastroianni plays a sophisticated Milan-based author, and Jeanne Moreau his wife, in this tale of a middle-aged couple whose relationship is suffering a crisis of apathy. La Notte, which follows them through a day and a night in the glamorous post-war city, won the Golden Bear at Berlin.
L’eclisse
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1962, L’eclisse is the most aesthetically daring of Antonioni’s work of the early 1960s. It centres on Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who leaves her lover to begin an affair with Piero (Alain Delon). In this subtle and artistic film, it is not so much the action that counts, as the events and non-events with which it is interspersed.
More information on these films, as well as screening dates/times, can be founded by clicking here.
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