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Red Desert

1964, Movie, 1h 57min

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and RED DESERT, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—RED DESERT creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.

Country: Italy,France

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast:

Reviews

Critic Ian Freer

rated

A tough gig, but beautiful in its stunning use of colour and locale.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...a disturbing ambient drama about post-natal anxiety and the malaise of industrial society...

Read full review at The Guardian

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Red Desert was released in theaters on September 4, 1964.