| Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) | |
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 Original Italian film poster | |
| Directed by | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Produced by | Antonio Cervi |
| Written by | Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra |
| Starring | Monica Vitti Richard Harris |
| Music by | Giovanni Fusco Vittorio Gelmetti |
| Cinematography | Carlo Di Palma |
| Editing by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Distributed by | Rizzoli (USA) |
| Release date(s) |  4 September 1964 (premiere at VFF) 8 February 1965 |
| Running time | 120 min |
| Country | Italy/France |
| Language | Italian |
| IMDb profile | |
Red Desert (Italian: Il deserto rosso) is a 1964 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( September 29 1912 &ndash July 30 2007) was an Italian Modernist Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( September 29 1912 &ndash July 30 2007) was an Italian Modernist Tonino Guerra (born 16 March 1920) is an Italian poet writer and Screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni Richard St John Harris ( October 1 1930 - October 25 2002) was a two-time Academy Award -nominated and Grammy Award Giovanni Fusco ( October 10[[ 906]] Sant'Agata dei Goti, Benevento – May 31[[ 968]] Rome) was an Italian composer pianist Carlo Di Palma ( April 17[[ 925]] Rome, - July 9[[ 004]] Rome) was an Italian Cinematographer, renowned for his work on Angelo Rizzoli (born October 31, 1889 in Milan – died September 24, 1970) was an Italian Publisher and Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world Events 421 - Constantius III becomes co- Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. The year 1964 in film involved some significant events Events January 29 - The film Dr The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered the medium when Pope Leo XIII was filmed Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( September 29 1912 &ndash July 30 2007) was an Italian Modernist It was written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and stars Monica Vitti, Richard Harris and others. Tonino Guerra (born 16 March 1920) is an Italian poet writer and Screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni Richard St John Harris ( October 1 1930 - October 25 2002) was a two-time Academy Award -nominated and Grammy Award It is Antonioni's first color film. The working title was Celeste e verde ("Pale blue and green"). [1] Il deserto rosso was awarded the Golden Lion at the 25th Venice Film Festival in 1964. The Leone d’Oro ('Golden Lion' is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world
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Plot
Giuliana (Monica Vitti), a young and mentally distressed woman, has attempted to take her life. Although she is married to Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), a plant director, and has a young son, she feels estranged from her relatives and disconnected from the surrounding world. She does not know how to connect to it and feels that something goes terribly wrong. Ugo's friend, Zeller (Richard Harris), who came to Ravenna to make a business deal, pursues her, attracted by her beauty and enigma. He seems to understand her troubles better than her busy husband, but that is still not enough to alleviate Giuliana's anxiety and tribulations.
Cinematography
The story is set in the industrial area of Ravenna full of huge cold factories and machines, and a polluted river valley. Ravenna is a City and Comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The visuals are dominated by pastel colors and cold whiteness with smoke and fog covering everything, and the sound design by repetitive ghostly ship horns and atmospheric electronic score. Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field It covers all non-compositional elements of a film a play a music performance Prior to making his first color film, Antonioni admitted that
| “ | I want to paint the film as one paints the canvas; I want to invent the colour relationships, and not limit myself to photographing only natural colours. [2] | ” |
The director made a point of painting trees and grass white or grey in order to highlight unnaturalness of urban landscape. [2] Red color was used to highlight Giuliana's emotional anguish and sexual longing, so that Andrew Sarris referred to the red-painted pipes and railings as "the architecture of anxiety: the reds and blues exclaim as much as they explain". Andrew Sarris, born on October 31, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, is a U [2] It is supposed that Fernand Leger's works were Antonioni's inspiration for these intricate patterns of brightly colored tubes. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger ( February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and
Interpretations
After the film's release, it was commonly interpreted as a story about the harshness of humanity and its blindness to see the world it created. Only the neurotic Giuliana is awakened, seeing and feeling the profound alienation and suffering it all. However, Antonioni's attitude to the modern industrial environment was not as negative as that of many film critics. According to him, Giuliana
| “ | . . . must confront her social environment. It's too simplistic to say - as many people have done - that I am condemning the inhuman industrial world which oppresses the individuals and leads them to neurosis. My intention. . . was to translate the poetry of the world, in which even factories can be beautiful. The line and curves of factories and their chimneys can be more beautiful than the outline of trees, which we are already too accustomed to seeing. It is a rich world, alive and serviceable. . . The neurosis I sought to describe in Red Desert is above all a matter of adjusting. There are people who do adapt, and others who can't manage, perhaps because they are too tied to ways of life that are by now out-of-date. [2] | ” |
References
External links
- Il deserto rosso at the Internet Movie Database
- Il Deserto Rosso at Rotten Tomatoes
- DVD Review of The Red Desert at Blogcritics
| Preceded by Hands Over the City | Golden Lion winner 1964 | Succeeded by Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa |
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