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L'Eclisse (1962)
"L'eclisse" (original title)

Not Rated  |   |  Drama  |  20 December 1962 (USA)
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A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

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In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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To prep for the film, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled to Florence to film an actual solar eclipse. See more »

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Vittoria: As long as we were in love, we understood each other. There was nothing to understand.
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Referenced in We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) See more »

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L'eclisse Twist
Written by Giovanni Fusco
Performed by Mina
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L'Eclisse is about emptiness, meaningless capitalism and the nuclear threat.
1 July 2005 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Antonioni's 'L'Eclisse' depicts the emptiness and and meaningless of life in the post-Second World War world under the shadow of the nuclear threat. This is represented by the mushroom shaped water-tower looming outside the window in the film's early sequences, and is referred to again in newspaper headlines towards the end of the film. This film was made in 1962, a year after the Berlin crisis, and in the year of the Cuba crisis when we came very close to nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.

The film also depicts the greed of capitalism, as shown in the mad, chaotic scenes in the Rome Stock Exchange and the obsessive gambling of the mother character.

The location, with distant shots of Benito Mussolini's EUR buildings on the outskirts of Rome, also suggest a meaningless, empty, soulless Brave New World all overshadowed by the nuclear threat, where people suffer loneliness and depression and feel unable to make long-term commitments.


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