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Red Desert (Italian: Il deserto rosso) is a 1964 Italian psychological drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. Written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra , it was Antonioni's first color film .
Red Desert: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi. In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
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- Drama
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1965-02-08
94% Tomatometer 31 Reviews 85% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her ...
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- Monica Vitti
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Drama
RED DESERT, (aka IL DESERTO ROSSO), from left: Monica Vitti, Valerio Bartoleschi, 1964 Photograph from Everett. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in color, from 1964, is his most mysterious...
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Nowhere is this more apparent or clearly stated than in Red Desert (Il deserto rosso), Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film. Controlling every aspect of every shot, the director conjures an encroaching industrial world and challenges poor Giuliana (Vitti) to find her place in it.
Jul 27, 2012 · As Red Desert (1964), Michelangelo Antonioni’s unsettling vision of life in a forbidding industrial landscape, is rereleased across the UK, we round up this week’s reviews and compare them with what critics said at the time of the film’s original release.
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.
