Red Desert
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: World cinema, Art film, Drama
Year: 1964
Country: France, Italy
Language: Italian Language, France
Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Bruno Borghi, Beppe Conti, Julio Cotignoli, Lili Rheims
Red Desert (Italian: Il deserto rosso) is a 1964 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and starring Monica Vitti with Richard Harris. This was Antonioni's first color film. The working title was Celeste e verde (Sky blue and green). Il deserto rosso was awarded the Golden Lion at the 25th Venice Film Festival in 1964. It is also sometimes noted as the last in a series of four films he made with Vitti over five years beginning in 1959 and ending in 1964, the three before being L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L'Eclisse (1962).
As the film opens, Giuliana (Vitti) has been released from the hospital after having attempted suicide. She lives with her husband Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), director of a nationalized plant which is going through a strike, along with their young son. Giuliana feels estranged from her family and disconnected from the world. Ugo's friend Zeller (Richard Harris) comes to Ravenna to make a business deal and is drawn to her. Zeller may understand her troubles more than Ugo does, but this is not enough to sway Giuliana from her worries.
The film is set in the industrial area of 1960s Ravenna with sprawling new
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