La notte

+ pre-recorded intro by writer Joanna Biggs

The Night

Existential angst has never looked as good as it does in Michelangelo Antonioni’s exploration of urban alienation.

  • Director

    Michelangelo Antonioni

  • With

    Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau

  • Italy 1961. 122min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

A disaffected novelist and his wife drift through Milan for a day and night in Antonioni’s sublimely chilly masterpiece. Vitti plays a key foil to Mastroianni and Moreau’s characters, as a rich young woman who encounters the writer at a glamorous party. The three leads are placed in Antonioni’s gorgeously hollow compositions to subvert traditional narratives of marital betrayal.

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