Fresh
Swoon, ye 21st-century philistines, before the cataract of existential glamour that is Antonioni's Il deserto rosso,
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Red Desert
This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…
1964 · 1h 57m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michelangelo Antonioni Director
- Monica Vitti as Giuliana
- Richard Harris as Corrado Zeller
- Carlo Chionetti as Ugo
- Xenia Valderi as Linda
- Rita Renoir as Emilia
- Lili Rheims as Telescope operator's wife
- Aldo Grotti as Max
- Valerio Bartoleschi as Valerio
- Emanuela Pala Carboni as Girl in Fable
- Giuliano Missirini Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film's most spellbinding sequence depicts a pantheistic, utopian fantasy of innocence, which she recounts to her ailing son.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni's entire career; and correspondingly impossible to synopsise.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Red Desert is at once the most beautiful, the most simple and the most daring film yet made by Italy's masterful Michelangelo Antonioni.
TIME Magazine
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