The mastery of the film is inescapable and the conclusion i have come to feels inevitable. Film historian and critic roberto curti described the film s gross as a modest sum of 82,772,000 lire. Bernhard wicki, monica vitti, jeanne moreau, marcello mastroianni. Giphy is how you search, share, discover, and create gifs. The blurb tells us that it is a salute to italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni. Opening the film with the central couples hospital visit to a dying friend bernhard wicki, the director plunges straightaway into the kind of. Tra noia, flirt abbozzati e vagabondaggi senza meta, i due, a volte insieme, a volte separati, passano una giornata grigia, attanagliati dal loro malessere interiore. Starring marcello mastroianni, jeanne moreau, and monica vitti.
Perhaps no critic got it more wrong than pauline kael in her infamous essay the comedressedasthesicksoulofeurope parties. The film represents the debut of tomas milian in the italian film industry. It is a portrait of a failing marriage and people who have grown apart from each other, seen over a single day as the pantanos go out and about, visiting a terminally ill friend, going to a fancy party. Mastroianni radiates brooding energy as giovanni pontano, a successful novelist who, along with his wife jeanne moreau, spends a night drifting through the unsettlingly superficial social settings of 1960s milan. Filmed on location in milan, the film is about a day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their deteriorating relationship. The film follows a day in the life of married couple giovanni marcello mastroianni, a writer, and his wife, lidia jeanne moreau. Film streams is a 501c3 nonprofit organization in omaha, nebraska. An hour into the film they meet vitti, the plutocrats alluring, alienated, ludic daughter, and an. His new book has just been published, and their friend, despite his heavy pain, praises his work. Marcello mastroianni, jeanne moreau, monica vitti, imdb rating. When the film was released in france as les nuits sexuelles on april 23, 1975 which featured more explicit scenes such as one where females are tickled by naked handmaidens while lesbian and heterosexual couplings take place around them. September 14 at new yorks film forum and friday, september 16 at.
Meanwhile, giovanni, seemingly oblivious to his crumbling. This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director. Sono passati due anni dalla folle notte di las vegas in cui phil, stu e alan rischiarono di far saltare il matrimonio del loro amico doug. Marcello mastroianni and jeanne moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois. Film casting list, boxoffice, free download movie hdposter and buy bluray dvd mm52. Gherardini may be a selfinterested philistine, but his work involves a visionary creative energy he says, i. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The night is a 1961 italian drama film directed by michelangelo antonioni and starring marcello mastroianni, jeanne moreau and monica vitti with umberto eco appearing in a cameo. Antonionis concern is nothing less than the human condition itself, stripped of melodrama and offered up to the viewer, to either face up to or reject outright, in the purest form the medium has yet conceived. Oct 19, 20 cinematic trilogies have been all the rage since pagnols in the early 30s. But possibly the most influential was the trio that made antonionis beautiful, sceptical, ironic muse monica vitti the. E il capitolo centrale della cosiddetta trilogia esistenziale o dellincomunicabilita, segue lavventura e precede leclisse. I have reached this point after much careful consideration. Writers wife, visibly shaken, leaves a hospital in tears.
Our mission is to enhance the cultural environment of the omahacouncil bluffs metropolitan area through the presentation and discussion of film as an art form. In milan, lidia jeanne moreau suddenly storms out of a posh gathering held to honor her husband, giovanni marcello mastroianni, who has just written a new novel. But with this film visconti seems to have changed his idea of what he. Dec 18, 2019 tutti film completi trovati su youtube buona visione. Shot in lusciously textured blackandwhite, the film offers a melancholic, unblinking portrait of a time and a place, a social class, and a marriage. The movie should be viewed more then once, for two reasons. Anita rinaldi, judith vegh, julia larot, mike foster, sean michaels, stephanie sartori. Driving the point home is monica vitti as marcellos wouldbe mistress. Crowther praises antonionis ability to develop his drama with a skill that is excitingly fertile, subtle and awesomely intuitive. A prominent writer and his beautiful wife visit their dying friend in a hospital in milan. In the night, they go to a nightclub, and later to a. Just as no one solved the central mystery in antonionis lavventura, neither does anyone truly enjoy the literary.