The middle film of Antonioni’s celebrated trilogy (L’avventura, L’eclisse) is a key work of modernist cinema, exploring the alienation of the Milanese bourgeoisie within the landscape of the city and the lavish villas of its periphery. The film follows a couple—Mastroianni, as an exhausted novelist coasting on his reputation, and Moreau, as his disenchanted wife—from an afternoon visit to a dying friend in a hospital, through a book launching party at the home of an industrialist, to their separate nocturnal forays.