Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964):
BFI Southbank, Today in NFT 1 & 3 and then on extended run till Aug 9. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
'Michelangelo Antonioni's first color feature (1964) uses colors
expressionistically, and to get the precise hues he wanted, he had
entire fields painted. The film came at the end of his most fertile
period, just after L'Avventura, La Notte, and Eclipse,
and it isn't as good as the first and last of these, but the ecological
concerns look a lot more prescient today. Monica Vitti plays a neurotic
married woman briefly attracted to industrialist Richard Harris, and
Antonioni does eerie, memorable work with the industrial shapes and
colors that surround her; she walks through a science fiction landscape
dotted with structures that are both disorienting and full of
possibilities. Like any self-respecting Antonioni heroine, she's looking
for love and meaning and mainly finding sex. But the film's most
spellbinding sequence depicts a pantheistic, utopian fantasy of
innocence, which she recounts to her ailing son.' Jonathan Rosenbaum
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