Red Desert (Criterion Collection)

Red Desert

Film Duemila (1964)

NR (Not Rated)

715515058216

7.4

19,214

Drama

Italy | Italian | Color | 01:57

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In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Cast View all

	Monica Vitti	Giuliana
	Richard Harris	Corrado Zeller
	Carlo Chionetti	Ugo
	Xenia Valderi	Linda
	Rita Renoir	Emilia
	Lili Rheims	Telescope operator's wife
	Aldo Grotti	Max
	Valerio Bartoleschi	Valerio - Giuliana's son
	Emanuela Pala Carboni	Girl in fable
	Bruno Borghi
	Beppe Conti
	Giulio Cotignoli
	Giovanni Lolli
	Hiram Mino Madonia
	Giuliano Missirini	Radio telescope operator
	Arturo Parmiani
	Carla Ravasi	Jole
	Ivo Scherpiani
	Bruno Scipioni

Crew View all

Director	Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer	Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Producer	Tonino Cervi, Angelo Rizzoli
Musician	Giovanni Fusco, Vittorio Gelmetti
Photography	Carlo Di Palma

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	Special Edition
Packaging	HD Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital Mono [Italian] SUB [English]
Subtitles	English
Distributor	Criterion
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date	Jun 22, 2010
Regions	Region A

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Index	2465
Added Date	Nov 10, 2021 23:55:30
Modified Date	Jun 12, 2022 00:35:18

Notes

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.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
Archival interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
Two short documentaries by Antonioni: Gente del Po, about a barge trip down the Po River, and N.U. about urban street cleaners
Dailies from the original production
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film writer Mark Le Fanu, a reprinted interview with Antonioni conducted by Jean-Luc Godard, and writings by Antonioni on Gente del Po and N.U.
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang

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