La Notte

La Notte

  • Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni,Ennio Flaiano,Tonino Guerra
  • Countries of origin: Italy, France
  • Language: Italian, English, French
  • Release date: February 19, 1962
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Night
  • "La Notte" is a 122-minute love film co-produced by Italy and France. The film was directed by M. Antonioni, starring Marcello Mastroianni , Jeanne Moreau , Monica Vitti, etc., and was released in Italy on January 24, 1961.
    The film is the second part of M. Antonioni's "Modern Love Trilogy". It tells the story of the writer Giovanni Pontano and his wife going to the hospital to visit their dying friends, cheating in the ward, participating in a new book launch, and comics. Stories about walking aimlessly in the streets, witnessing fights, and attending banquets. When a new day approaches, his wife suddenly says that she no longer loves him   .

    Details

    • Release date February 19, 1962
    • Filming locations Milan, Lombardia, Italy
    • Production companies Nepi Film, Sofitedip, Silver Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $39,236

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,547

    Gross worldwide

    $40,703

    Movie reviews

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    • By Isac 2022-08-08 20:30:50

      The Night: Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award for Best

      I like my wife Lydia wandering in the city alone, the sun is dazzling, and her heart is cold and lonely. The photography of the film is beautiful, the black and white textured shots are slow and quiet, and each frame is a photo with a story. I have never been so calm as to watch a very slow literary film. Men and women who respect each other in a marriage are afraid of being hot when they are close, and cold when they are far away. The woman said helplessly that I don't love you anymore, and...

    • By Billie 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      Depressed couple relationship

      The protagonist should be regarded as the wife, her behavior, expression, and close-up of her face can reveal the marital status of the two in the film. I think these two people are very miserable: husband and wife do not love each other, but they still live together, pretending to be husband and wife. Might as well both have an extramarital affair.
      In addition, we can regard wives as a kind of thinking of writers: wives attach great importance to feelings, revisit old places, dislike...

    • By Trevor 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      first intimate contact

      This is the first time I've seen Antonioni's film. Just call a virgin.
      I agree with the claims of constructivist psychology. For example, I chose to watch this film because Director Chen liked it. He also likes Abbas and Cai Mingliang. I got to know Director Chen and know what he likes, and these seeds were sown in me. Although it is more than a year later, I will have a chance to germinate today, but I believe that the tenacious vitality of the seeds will be reborn with the spring breeze...

    • By D'angelo 2022-04-19 09:02:37

      The most beautiful lens in the world

      Forgot whether to interview Tarkovsky or Angelops, the reporter asked him what the most beautiful scene in Italian movies was, and the director replied that Jeanne and Mastroianni were sitting on the lawn in la notte.
      I forgot when I wrote the above words, but after watching the film last night, I was really dazzled by this paragraph... At the same time, I accidentally saw the message when I added the film as "want to watch", and suddenly With a shudder, I understood the interviewee's high...

    • By Priscilla 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      a parting poem

      After visiting the patient's friend, Giovanni lingered on the bed with the neurotic woman. Whoever provoked this speaks volumes: Giovanni doesn't have much resistance to temptation. He was upset about this. He tries to get forgiveness by partially confessing to his wife—whether that forgiveness is his or his own. In fact, if a person is really aware of his mistakes, he should close himself and let his mistakes and pain torment him in his heart, in order to make up for the mistakes he made...

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    • By Jasmin 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      The relationship between husband and wife died, trying to discuss and recall. A friend dies (with the marriage at the funeral). The most powerful scene of the male protagonist is the strong kiss at the end, but a rubber band is also fatigued. Jenny Morrow is great, and it's very imposing to walk with Mastroianni. Vitti is so beautiful. Modern architecture, glass linear...

    • By Novella 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      As long as you have experienced the love of time, you know that everything will be like this, just like this ordinary night. It's also a little unusual, and that's a little reflection after the morning light that another person's death brings. "How stupid we were when we were young, we couldn't imagine the day when everything would come to an end. / You don't know the weight of the years, it's all in vain. / Whenever I try to communicate, love disappears....

    • By Marcelle 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      After watching the eight films of the Antonioni Film Festival, @sea #5 has a deeper and clearer understanding of him after walking through a dreamlike Long Long Journey. There are traces of the saying that only one film will be made in one's life. The consistent avant-garde trend of thought, the alienation and loneliness of intimacy, the worries of intellectuals about modern civilization, and the temperament of women without the slightest sway, Antonioni has deeply imprinted the idea of...

    • By Dawn 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      Hurry up and renew your visa to go to...

    • By Alycia 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      The atmosphere of the whole film is dull and sluggish, like a long and boring night. It wasn't until the end that we understood that all the uncontrollable intimacy with others, all the times when you were with me and I was bored, all the love letters that I read again but didn't know where it came from, was because I didn't love you anymore. It's a kind of helpless despair. Even if you sit next to me or kiss me rudely, this lost love will go into another...

    Movie plot

    Milan, at noon. The streets are full of vehicles, the sidewalks are full of people; the traffic police are too busy; the street cars are crowded with depressed, exhausted passengers.
    In a sunny ward with bright windows, 45-year-old Tommaso Gallani was tortured with severe illness and rolled over his bed. Chen almost roared in pain in his throat. A doctor and a nurse stood by his bed, the doctor comforted him while giving him injections....
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    The film made a clear plan for urban space and gender. His wife Lydia has a close emotional connection with the pre-modern suburbs. Lydia is a symbol of "classic". The husband, Giovanni, is a representative who actively faces the "modern situation" and the "desire in the modern situation". The ending of the film is the firm rejection of the "classic" against the "modern" that shows love again. Between Lydia and Giovanni, a "third...
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    Movie quotes

    • Giovanni: Who wrote that?

      Lidia: You did.

    • Giovanni: I no longer have inspirations, only recollections.

    • Mr. Gherardini: So as I was saying, my friend, it's absurd to speak of wealth now. No one's wealthy anymore. But should anyone still think of becoming rich, my only advice would be, "Don't worry about the money." I've always looked upon my businesses as works of art. Whatever profit I earned was of practically no concern to me. The important thing is to create something solid; something to be remembered.

      Signora Gherardini: But darling, not everyone can create something lasting.

      Mr. Gherardini: Please, do you mind? What sustains a writer - you for instance - is certainly not the idea of profit but a sense of necessity. You write because you have to...

      Signora Gherardini: Still, one has to live.

      Mr. Gherardini: I never worried about that. Life is what we make of it through our own efforts. What would you do if you couldn't write?

      Lidia: A few years ago he'd have killed himself. Now I don't know. Tell us.

      Giovanni: I don't consider myself that important. There are other solutions. A writer of today constantly wonders if writing isn't some sort of irrepressible but outdated instinct. This lonely craft of painstakingly joining one word to another that absolutely can't be mechanized.

      Mr. Gherardini: Are you sure of that?

      Giovanni: No. But you industrialists have the advantage of constructing your "stories" using real people, real houses, real cities. The rhythm of life today is in your hands. Perhaps even the future.

      Lidia: My husband's having a particularly bad day.

      Giovanni: I guess so.

      Mr. Gherardini: Are you one of the many worrying about the future? I'm building my own future, though the present keeps me plenty busy. Besides, the future will probably never come.

      Signora Gherardini: The future will be awful, don't you think?