L’eclisse

The Eclipse

Monica Vitti and Alain Delon are sublime and breathtakingly beautiful in Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece.

  • Director

    Michelangelo Antonioni

  • With

    Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal

  • France-Italy 1962. 126min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Vitti is extraordinary as Vittoria, a bourgeois Roman woman who leaves her partner and embarks on a relationship with Delon’s financier. One of cinema’s most stunning pairings, the actors play out their doomed love affair amid a world of frantic change. Antonioni lingers on faces, places and modernist architecture, allowing Vitti’s haunting performance to stand out.

Contains racist attitudes and language.

The screening of L’eclisse on Sunday 9 August will be introduced by season curator Catherine O’Rawe.