Red Desert

Il deserto rosso

Michelangelo Antonioni’s devastating film features Monica Vitti as a woman struggling to keep her hold on reality.

Copyright: Cinecitta

  • Director

    Michelangelo Antonioni

  • With

    Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti

  • France-Italy 1964. 117min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

Against the backdrop of a bleak industrial landscape, a traumatised woman embarks on an affair. Antonioni’s first colour film critiques industrialisation and reflects on fragmented human connection in a rapidly changing society. Vitti, starring alongside Harris, gives a devastating performance as the fragile Giuliana, who is searching for something she cannot name. The film won the Golden Lion at the 1965 Venice Film Festival.

4K Restoration by Cinecittà and CSC - Cineteca Nazionale.