Red Desert

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In Theaters: February 8, 1965 (limited)

September 2, 2011 (limited)

2h 0m | Drama


Michelangelo Antonioni's 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, Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema's preeminent poet of the modern age.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer(s): Antonio Cervi
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Giuliano Missirini, Lili Rheims, Emanuela Carboni
Writer(s): Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
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