L'eclisse
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Black-and-white, World cinema, Art film, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: Italy, France
Language: English Language, Italian Language
Starring: Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Monica Vitti, Lilla Brignone, Louis Seigner, Cyrus Elias
L'eclisse ("The Eclipse") is a 1962 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is considered the last part of a trilogy which was preceded by L'avventura and La Notte. In My Voyage to Italy, the documentary on Italian films by Martin Scorsese, the director calls it the boldest film in Antonioni's trilogy.
At dawn on July 10, 1961 a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), breaks off her affair with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal), a writer, and hesitantly begins a summer romance with Piero (Alain Delon), an energetic young stockbroker. They are unable to form a steady relationship and shortly before sunset at 20:00, September 10, 1961 they seemingly fail to meet as agreed on the corner of Viale del Ciclismo and Viale della Tecnica by the construction site of a new apartment building in the Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR), a modern suburban neighbourhood south of Rome where Vittoria lives.
L'eclisse won the Jury Special Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm).
Director Martin Scorsese, in his documentary about Italian films, My Voyage to Italy, describes how the film haunted and inspired him as a young moviegoer, noting it
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