Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

antoniocasaca123 Another film with the "Antonioni brand". Little (apparently) happens, slow pace, long scenes without any dialogues (Brian De Palma saw for sure Antonioni's films ...), some things (seemingly) pointless, improved and obsessive technique in sound and image. As for us, those of us who have an open mind and who truly enjoy the art of cinema, we simply love and are dazzled by what we see. Excellent performance by Monica Vitti.

Dujke1995 The main theme explored in works of a cinema master, Antonioni, and this one is no exception. I watched it 2 years ago. It was my first Antonioni, and didn't really liked it back then so I will not recommend it for entering into the artist work. But maybe it's just me. For entering I will recommend something like Zabriskie Point (my favorite from him) or The Passenger (my second).This is a film about woman (Monica Vitti), a very sensitive one, and beautiful too, living in her world, a very ugly and toxic, a distanced one, filmed with masterful directing and cinematography. It was a director's first colour movie and colours are beautifully placed in this harshly grey environment, especially red. Monica Vitti, Antonioni's muse, was great in this film. She is my favourite actress, except maybe Irène Jacob, or maybe Juliette Binoche, or maybe... Well I don't know any Antonioni's movie with her in which she wasn't, at least, great.Don't get fooled because of my rating. I am very strict, very. This is one of Antonioni's best films for me and I will definitely watch it again in years to come.And please, be nicer to the environment.

Jackson Booth-Millard Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, Blowup), this film came to my knowledge through the book 100 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I was surprised to see it only rated two stars out of five by critics, but I was still going to see why it was listed. Basically in cold, rainy and foggy Ravenna, Italy is a petrochemical plant, the factory is creating wastage that pollutes local lakes, the plant manager is Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), who is married to housewife Giuliana (L'Avventura's Monica Vitti), she has been hiding that following an auto accident she has become mentally ill. Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) is a visiting business associate wanting to recruit workers for an industrial operation in Patagonia, Argentina, he is attracted to Giuliana, she one day accompanies him and indirectly reveals details of her mental state, including dreams of sinking and drowning, and she seems lost and isolated in moments. Giuliana, Ugo, and Corrado spend a weekend together with couple Max (Aldo Grotti) and Linda (Xenia Valderi), and also Emilia (Rita Renoir) at a small riverside shack at Porto Corsini where they engage in small talk, jokes, role-play and innuendo, Giuliana and Corrado have grown closer during this time, but the company are interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious ship docking directly outside, it is quarantined due to an infectious disease, Giuliana panics and rushes off. Later Ugo leaves on a business trip, Giuliana spends more time with Corrado and reveals more about her anxieties, then she finds that all the sudden her son (Valerio Bartoleschi) has become paralysed from the waist down, she tries to comfort him, she is shocked as her son was only pretending, seeing this as a cruel thing to do her loneliness and isolation returns. Giuliana wanting to end her inner turmoil goes to Corrado's apartment, he tries to force his affections on her, first resisting she accepts them, they make love, but this does nothing to help her isolation, the next day she goes to the docks and goes to her lowest state, and later on walking with her son, he notices the toxic poisonous yellow smoke emissions, Giuliana reassures him birds have learnt to avoid it. Also starring Lili Rheims as Telescope operator's wife and Giuliano Missirini as Radio telescope operator. To be honest, I can agree with critics, it is not exactly the most compelling film, it is good to see British actor Harris speaking a foreign language, the woman trying to survive the modern world is interesting enough to an extent, and the power plant threat is alright, it may have good visuals, but overall its a relatively dull drama. Adequate!

runamokprods Breathtaking images, for the first time Antonioni's career in color. I'd be happy to have still frames from this framed on my wall. But the acting and writing didn't match the power of the images for me, at least on first viewing. Monica Vitti is a housewife losing her mind, who quickly (and without clear reason) obsesses a badly dubbed Richard Harris, who is visiting Vitti's husband on business. What makes this less powerful for me than L'Venturra and L'Ecisse is here the characters talk a lot more, and a lot of the dialogue is stilted and false sounding; way too full of 'meaning' when the images are already so symbolic. And while Vitti is a good actress, she's not Liv Ulmann or Meryl Streep. But where it fails as drama, it's amazing as storytelling through images. Every time everyone shut up, I was immediately drawn back in.