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The Red Desert
(Il deserto rosso)

Screening on Film
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chianetti.
Italy, 1964, 35mm, color, 116 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

"Michelangelo Antonioni’s first color film all but subjugates its characters to its landscape. Antonioni trans-forms Ravenna, the city of Dante’s tomb, Byzantine murals and marble churches, into a terrifyingly beautiful desert of slag heaps, factories and sulphorous skies. . . . Vitti is the traumatized heroine who, in a desperate search for love, has a brief affair with the owner of a factory, which her husband manages. Prescient in its connection of existential and ecological concerns, Red Desert is . . . one of the greatest works of European cinema."—James Quandt

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