With monica vitti, richard harris, carlo chionetti. Red desert, famously, is antonionis first film to use the full chromatic palette, and was felt by his contemporaries to be an aesthetic breakthrough. This critical approach was refuted by antonioni just after the films release when he was. Download red desert 1964 yify torrent for 720p mp4 movie. With monica vitti, richard harris, carlo chionetti, xenia valderi.
Red desert is a drama, which brings a magical combination of different colors in a macabre and alienated environment. Australias wild places 1of5 the red desert 720p hdtv x264 aac. It is this nothingness that antonioni wants to address through giuliana in red desert. Written by antonioni and tonino guerra, it was antonioni s first color film. In his first color film, here is antonioni, the painter on screen, the abstract expressionist. Red desert 2012, directed by michelangelo antonioni film. Although the color cinematography marked a new direction in antonionis visual aesthetics, the films thematic issues. Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the michelangelo antonionidirected movie via subscription can be a.
Monica vitti, richard harris, carlo chionetti, hiram mino madonia, giuliano missirini, emanuela pala. Red deserts extraordinary deployment of color inspired federico fellini, among others, to add color to his experiments with film form, while the legacy of antonionis study of environmental female dislocation can be felt most notably in todd hayness safe 1995, often considered one of the best american movies of the 1990s. Starring monica vitti with a score by giovanni fusco. Red desert occupies a curious place in antonionis canon. Red desert, though it is often appended to the trilogy that preceded it perhaps because it once again stars monica vitti and seems to deal with. Antonioni spiritually enters the 60s with this fascinating experimental movie about the malaise of industrial society.
Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but they, like she, pretend that nothing is truly wrong. Cast as giuliana, an unhappy wife, vitti suffers from an. Fancy watching red desert on your tv or mobile device at home. His major films included le amiche 1955, lavventura 1960, leclisse 1962, and blowup 1966. Michelangelo antonionis 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decadedefining artistic events, and red desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. Red desert is the story of a crisis involving the ordinary working middle. Rent red desert 1964 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. The film is about a neurotic woman monica vitti who has been in a car accident and is having trouble adjusting to the new industrial world that is the postwar italy. Watch red desert 1964 online full movie uwatchfree. Michelangelo antonioni s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decadedefining artistic events, and red desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. Red desert has often been compared to painting, a link validated to a certain extent by antonioni s process, as he painted studies and experimented with tinting film in order to prepare for working in color.
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Red desert by michelangelo antonioni a movie to download, on vod and legal streaming lacinetek. Il deserto rosso red desert michelangelo antonioni. Red desert by michelangelo antonioni on vod lacinetek. Red desert is a film of these distinct yet familiar emotions its antonioni doing tarr, the weathered face of humanity against a nondescript background, the innocents shown against a backdrop of industry. Michelangelo antonioni made this film prior to blow up, but you can see where he was headed. In an industrial area, giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a coworker at the plant her husband manages. The films main character, giuliana, is played by monica vitti alongside coactor richard harris as corrado, a strong supporting role for giuliana. Directed by michelangelo antonioni 1964 italy michelangelo antonioni s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decadedefining artistic events, and red desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. Red desert 1964 directed by michelangelo antonioni. Rent red desert 1964 starring monica vitti and richard harris on dvd and bluray. Red desert 1964 michelangelo antonioni sp film journal. While red desert demonstrates a supreme sensibility for color and composition, antonioni saw his film primarily as a realist rather than expressionist endeavor.
Cast as giuliana, an unhappy wife, vitti suffers from an unnamed. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological ageabout a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by antonioni muse monica vitti, wandering. Like the latter films, it featured monica vitti as a modern. Cast as giuliana, an unhappy wife, vitti suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Monica vitti in antonionis red desert michelangelo antonioni about time movie music film.
Michelangelo antonioni s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decadedefining artistic events. Antonionis red desert i was really tempted to make the title red dessert, but since the last post was a complaint about how things arent serious enough around here, i. Reporter the passenger, zabriskie point, identification of a woman, the mystery of oberwald, beyond the clouds, andthe dangerous thread of thingsto analyze the directors subtle and complex use of color. Red desert tells the story of giuliana monica vitti, a young married woman suffering a mental and emotional crisis and embarking tentatively on an affair. Michelangelo antonionis first film in colour and his last in italy before he upped sticks to swinging london to shoot blowup red desert is about the suffering of those who. This green, a symbol of nature and tranquility, contrasts with the orange flames pulsing from the factory and the blackened trees. By boldly using color to inscribe on the modern landscape a kind of neurosis, antonioni created one of the most psychological and dramatic. Michelangelo antonionis 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decadedefining artistic events. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological ageabout a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by antonioni muse monica vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape. Australias wild places s01e01 the red desert hdtv x264cbfm. Directed by michelangelo antonioni with monica vitti, richard harris, carlo chionetti. The italian maestros stroll through the modern wasteland.
Red desert tells the story of giuliana, a young married woman suffering a mental and emotional crisis and embarking tentatively on an affair. Michelangelo antonioni, italian film director, cinematographer, and producer noted for his avoidance of realistic narrative in favor of character study and a vaguely metaphorical series of incidents. Red desert is about a deeply troubled, beautiful woman who seems to have it all including a stable, handsome husband, a precocious son, and fun, sexy friends. The film won the golden lion at the venice film festival and is considered as antonionis most ambitious attempt to ground. Red desert, as with many of antonionis 60s fables, exteriorizes destruction not in a diegetic event a hurricane, a meteor, a giant lizard but in the venomous paralysis of a formal, visual collapse as the camera distinctly refuses, or struggles to. The first, and one that was seized upon by those with a generally marxist critical disposition, was to view the film as an attack on modern society and as a condemnation of the ravages wreaked up on man by modern technology. Red desert trailer 1964 the criterion collection youtube. The film is abstract, challenging and is arguably one of the most. Monica vitti, richard harris, carlo chionetti country. Red desert 1964 chapter 4 the films of michelangelo antonioni. Il deserto rosso michelangelo antonioni 1964 youtube. Red desert was shot in the industrialized north of italy, where monica vitti, as the wife of an electronics engineer, suffers what would be called a nervous breakdown at any other time, in any other place. This green, a symbol of nature and tranquility, contrasts with the orange flames pulsing from the factory and the blackened trees that run.
The story follows a troubled woman vitti living in an industrial region of northern italy following a recent automobile accident il deserto rosso was awarded the golden lion. Color had been available to filmmakers for many years, of course, but up until the early 1960s, serious drama, of the sort that european cinema excels at, was usually shot in black and white. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological ageabout a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by antonioni muse monica vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power. Antonioni has not undergone significant changes compared to his previous films. Red desert is a 1964 italian film directed by michelangelo antonioni and cowritten by tonino guerra.