Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · Starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims · Music Giovanni Fusco
“This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…”
Drama
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
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A disorienting, color-drenched descent into urban alienation. The film's mood is thick with anxiety and a profound sense of disconnection, mirroring the protagonist's fractured psyche amidst a stark industrial landscape.
melancholicanxiousalienateddisorientingslow-burnarthousecolor-drenchedexistentialEuropean art filmisolationmodernitymental healthdisconnection
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