| L'Eclisse | |
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| Directed by | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Produced by | Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
| Written by | Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra Elio Bartolini Ottiero Ottieri |
| Starring | Alain Delon Monica Vitti Francisco Rabal Louis Seigner |
| Music by | Giovanni Fusco |
| Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| Editing by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Distributed by | Cineriz (Italy theatrical) Times Film Corporation (US theatrical) The Criterion Collection (Region 1 DVD) |
| Release date(s) |  12 April
1962 2 May
1962 |
| Running time | 118 min |
| Country | Italy / France |
| Language | Italian English |
| Preceded by | La notte |
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.
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At dawn on July 10, 1961 a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), breaks off her affair with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal), a writer, and 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. Frequently, scenes that in traditional cinema would proceed to move a plot forward dissolve into studies of places and things; this is in part due to the new cinematic narrative form Antonioni was attempting and in part due to his belief that places and things were supplanting people in a modern world.
L'eclisse won the Jury Special Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm).[1]
| Preceded by Mother Joan of the Angels |
Special Jury Prize,
Cannes 1962 tied with The Trial of Joan of Arc |
Succeeded by Harakiri tied with The Cassandra Cat |
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