La Notte (1961)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
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Among the little-known gems: "Story of a Love Affair" (1950), Antonioni's first feature, which is an adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" ; "Chung Kuo China" (1972), a four-hour documentary of daily Chinese life during Mao's Cultural Revolution; and "The Mystery of Oberwald" (1980), picked by Time magazine as one of the best films of 1980, yet the adaptation of Jean Cocteau's "The Eagle Has Two Heads" has never been released in North America.
I was reminded a time or two of Hitchcock's own gameboard designs--most notably for Notorious--and I was gratified to not feel alone in that comparison.
La Notte is thus something of Antonioni's update of Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy from 1954.
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 follow-up to L'Avventura--and middle feature in a loose trilogy ending with Eclipse--repeats many of the melancholic themes of its predecessor, with particular emphasis on the boredom and atrophied emotions of the rich.
“La notte” was the director's follow-up to his arthouse hit, “L'avventura” (1960), and follows an even looser plot.
In truth, the subsequent entries in Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation, 1961’s La Notte and 1962’s L’Ecclise , refined and deepened L’Avventura’s modernist gestures.
The virtuosic 1961 drama is the second film in what’s regarded as a trilogy, beginning with “L’Avventura,” Antonioni’s international breakthrough, and concluding with “L’Eclisse.”