Red Desert
1964, NR, 118 min. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir, Carlo Chionetti.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Wed., Jan. 17, 2001
Antonioni's first film in color shows him making full use of this new element. Set in industrial northern Italy, Red Desert stars beautiful Monica Vitti as a dysfunctional woman suffering from anomie. But is it the woman or her environment that's really out of whack? Some find Antonioni's study too painterly and tedious; the movie's plentiful admirers, however, find it a sublime demonstration of the externalization of interior feelings.
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Marjorie Baumgarten, May 19, 2000
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Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir, Carlo Chionetti
