A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
Cyrus Elias
- Intoxicated Man
- (uncredited)
Alba Maiolini
- Woman at the Stock Market
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Roman stock market scenes were filmed on Sundays when the market was closed. Real brokers were drafted to make it more convincing.
- Goofs(at around 1h 28 mins) Vittoria and Piero get wet from a sprinkler. The right side of Piero's jacket is wet. A minute later when they are listening to the piano player, the back of Vittoria's blouse is still wet, but Piero's jacket is dry.
- Alternate versionsWest German theatrical version was cut by approx. three minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dolce Vitti (2014)
Featured review
The capital,the eroticism
The Eclipse denotes Michelangelo Antonioni 's flawless taste,and his powerful,virile instinct for strong compositions;this elegant and suave movie is one of the cinema's best pieces of poetry (I must also confess that I prefer this early,younger,"black and white" and peninsular Michelangelo Antonioni;he was 50 years when he made L'ECLISSE).Before he approached the '60s counterculture,Antonioni made a few strong movies not only for the intellectuals but also about intellectuals.
This one is an incredibly rich movie,a movie about many things:about solitude,financial pawns,a woman's indefinite aspirations,the vibrating city beauty,and the heart's resilience,the woman soul's density,the urban aesthetic;and also about:greed,people that search gropingly .Little wheels in the gearing of the stock exchange;the stock exchange's crushing machine.Antonioni is caustic and sober.His theme,the human monad,is inexhaustible.The naturalness,the charm,the intensity,the integrity,the width of this film must be mentioned.Antonioni proved that,for his cinema,experiments are always ways and means,while the most intense poetry is the aim.(Each great director is an experimenter;all great directors are experimenters,only to be better poets.)
Antonioni is one of the three directors who,according to Averty,never made a bad movie (and Antonioni's creation was,for almost two decades, quite abundant;it is only after Blowup (1966) that he went slow,making some seven movies in so many decades).His movies don't have a "sockdolager",that's part of what makes them so good and endearing.Experimenting in countless ways,Antonioni never forgot to be a poet,and never failed.His aesthetic aim has a side of ingenuity and directness that enchants in an unfailing way.
And what is Antonioni's poetry?It is this compact texture,this density of the people and of the life,the striking immediacy.It is amazing also how Antonioni put all of himself in this beautiful movie,The Eclipse.
Like a few others,The Eclipse is one of the movies that give us the taste of what cinema can be.
This one is an incredibly rich movie,a movie about many things:about solitude,financial pawns,a woman's indefinite aspirations,the vibrating city beauty,and the heart's resilience,the woman soul's density,the urban aesthetic;and also about:greed,people that search gropingly .Little wheels in the gearing of the stock exchange;the stock exchange's crushing machine.Antonioni is caustic and sober.His theme,the human monad,is inexhaustible.The naturalness,the charm,the intensity,the integrity,the width of this film must be mentioned.Antonioni proved that,for his cinema,experiments are always ways and means,while the most intense poetry is the aim.(Each great director is an experimenter;all great directors are experimenters,only to be better poets.)
Antonioni is one of the three directors who,according to Averty,never made a bad movie (and Antonioni's creation was,for almost two decades, quite abundant;it is only after Blowup (1966) that he went slow,making some seven movies in so many decades).His movies don't have a "sockdolager",that's part of what makes them so good and endearing.Experimenting in countless ways,Antonioni never forgot to be a poet,and never failed.His aesthetic aim has a side of ingenuity and directness that enchants in an unfailing way.
And what is Antonioni's poetry?It is this compact texture,this density of the people and of the life,the striking immediacy.It is amazing also how Antonioni put all of himself in this beautiful movie,The Eclipse.
Like a few others,The Eclipse is one of the movies that give us the taste of what cinema can be.
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- Cristi_Ciopron
- Dec 5, 2006
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- The Eclipse
- Filming locations
- Rome Stock Exchange, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Vittoria and Piero meet)
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- Gross worldwide
- $5,321
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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