L'Eclisse Comments

  • Maxine 2023-09-14 21:45:40

    At the beginning of the film, a long silent shot is used to explain the emotions, anxious, irritable, speechless, and still wanting to talk. The hustle and bustle of the stock market, Victoria and Piero's kiss across the glass, and the shoulder strap of Victoria's dress pulled up with one hand all tell of this theme. 62 years in Italy, houses with glass halls, elegant dresses, flying clubs, it's nice to have...

  • Spencer 2023-03-22 10:43:10

    [Beijing Film Festival Screening] The most appreciated Antonioni film at the Beijing Film Festival so far. Compared with the noisy lines and complex characters of "Girlfriend", this film has few lines, the noisy ambient sound of the stock market, or the African indigenous dance. More than a thousand words. Especially the continuous empty shots at the end of the film, the space is involved in the narrative, and the photography composition is too powerful. And, the male protagonist Alain Delon is...

  • Polly 2023-02-28 08:09:00

    Looking at it again, the shots in this film are more "derived" from Victoria's eyes, and the camera always actively waits for a moment when Victoria looks back. Therefore, we can find that Victoria is more like a curious child than Lidia in "Night" when she is at a loss when facing the world, enjoying this elusive happiness. She willingly opens herself to the world, and perceives the existence of the world through labor and wandering; while men, they only linger in the stock exchange, forever...

  • Enos 2023-02-09 09:37:41

    Pretend to be in love with natives. [A short review: 2012-07-23 I really want to live in Antonioni's movie, no one is on the street at any time....

  • Alysha 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    It seems to be hard-to-get, but in fact, the closer you get, the more afraid of being hurt, and the classic pictures of the male god Alain Delon in the history of movies were all finished before the age of thirty-five... Everyone always likes to say that this is a classic of modernism, and people are in the picture. How about the mirror movement at the edge, how about the empty scene at the end, how about the Italian urban plan, but I just want to say: Monica Vitti's dress replica will...

  • Lesly 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    A movie full of emotions, almost completely without a story. If the description of the respective situations of the male and female protagonists is to show the foreshadowing of the interaction, its content accounts for three-quarters of the film, and it is too long. The movie-watching experience is extremely dull. Intermittent distractions will affect the feeling and absorption, but it does not affect the understanding at all. It is almost a one-dimensional expression, and it is impossible to...

  • Kole 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    In fact, it's about one thing with "Zoom", nothingness; the quiet and mysterious set of empty mirrors at the end is in stark contrast to the tense fighting arena-like atmosphere in the stock exchange before; I wish I never loved you , or love you...

  • Pink 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    A noisy stock trader and a woman on the exchange who only cares about flowers on paper, this relationship is full of contradictions from beginning to end, and hesitation is inevitable. Bonus points for the silent scene and the empty mirror montage at the...

  • Jude 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    The existential dilemma of losing the ability to perceive, but the heroine's almost vegetative state has changed later. Alain Delon played a spoiled playboy, a kid in a suit, and Marcello felt completely different. Antonioni's consistent beautiful light and shadow, and composition with elements of the environment. Rooms, buildings, plants, streets, cities under serious examination (the characters are only a little smaller). The large close-up defamiliarization shots (human jaws and necks) are...

  • Jeffery 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    #Northern Film FestivalReview# Spiritual emptiness and emotional changes, and the inability to communicate between people, so as to appreciate the deformity and absurdity of the society formed by these people who are separated from each other. Antonioni's greatest strength is his ability to convey Victoria's loneliness into all shots. (Inner life as external...

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L'Eclisse quotes

  • Anita: Why hasn't your father come back?

    Marta: He has his farm and horses in Kenya. He raises flowers. But I'm afraid something's going to happen. They've all got their revolvers. All of them, again.

    Vittoria: All who? The white or the colored?

  • Marta: The six million Negroes want to throw out the 60,000 whites. We're lucky they're still in trees and have barely lost their tails or they'd have already thrown us out.

    Anita: About time, too.

    Marta: I'll just say one thing. There are about ten leaders who've studied at Oxford. The others are all monkeys - six million monkeys.

    Vittoria: But if you like it there, they must be charming monkeys.