La Notte 1961  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Night
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi, Vincenzo Corbella, Gitt Magrini, Guido A. Marsan, Vittorio Bertolini, Ugo Fortunati, Gitt Magrini
A crucial 24-hour period in the lives of successful writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his frustrated wife, Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), is the subject of this drama. A visit to their dying friend Tommaso Garani (Bernhard Wicki) culminates the following day in the death of their own passionless marriage.
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L'Avventura 1960   N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance
aka: The Adventure
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, Dorothy DePoliolo, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, James Addams, Jack O'Connell, Franco Cimino, Prof. Cucco, Giovanni Danesi, Angela Tommasi Di Lampedusa
While on a yachting holiday to an island off the coast of Sicily, socialite Anna (Lea Massari) has an argument with her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) and disappears. Her best friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) and Sandro join forces and search the island for Anna but find no sign of her. Meanwhile, Claudia and Sandro become attracted to each other, and Claudia becomes Sandro's new lover. The cinematography is what makes this film as good as it is. 1 User Review
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| | One of the best of all time. | Dolores 03/27/2007 | | I can't believe this is only rated 3 stars and "An Almost Perfect Affair" is rated 2. L'Avventura is one of the great films of all time. It is slow-paced, it is contemplative, it is also stunningly beautiful and hypnotic, so stick with it. Monica Vitti turns in a performance of aching vulnerability and sensitivity. The cinematography is some of the best of all time. This film will haunt you in all the best ways. It is extremely honest, mysterious, and ambiguously hopeful. Please give it a chance. |
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Modesty Blaise 1966  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig, Clive Revill, Alexander Knox, Rossella Falk, Scilla Gabel, Michael Chow
British comic strip superagent Modesty Blaise comes to the screen with Monica Vitti in the title role. Modesty's task: watch over a diamond shipment. But archrival Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), thought dead by Modesty, has plans for both her and the shipment. A lighthearted spy flick.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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Red Desert 1964 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Giuliano Missirini, Emanuela Paola Carboni, Bruno Borghi, Bruno Scipioni, Giovanni Lolli, Carla Ravasi, Beppe Conti
The cold, polluted world of Ravenna in which Giuliana (Monica Vitti) struggles to physically survive echoes her alienation from the technology of the factory that her mentally ill husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), manages. Giuliana meets British engineer Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) and begins a brief affair with him. When Corrado leaves her, Giuliana is left alone to deal with her problems. This is Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film, and he uses it masterfully to reflect the grim landscape as well as Giuliana's depression.
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The Scarlet Lady 1968  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean Valere
Cast: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook, Albert Simono, Lucien Raimbourg, Monique Melinand, Simone Bach, Robert Rollis, Sabine Sun, Colette Gerard, Antonio Passalia
Lucie (Monica Vitti) decides to kill herself after breaking up with her boyfriend (Robert Hossein). But first, she gets drunk on champagne. Then she continues her drinking while thinking it over, finally coming to the conclusion that no man is worth the trouble of committing suicide. Harmless, black comedy.
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| 1. An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
2. The Chastity Belt (1968)
aka: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
3. The Eclipse (1962)
aka: L'Eclisse
4. La Notte (1961)
aka: The Night
5. L'Avventura (1960)
aka: The Adventure
6. Modesty Blaise (1966)
7. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
8. Red Desert (1964)
9. The Scarlet Lady (1968)
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