Viva Italia: La Notte
March 13, 2024
Viva Italia! The Passion of Italian Cinema
Iconic actress Jeanne Moreau plays the wife of intellectual novelist Marcello Mastroianni, her eloquent face like a modern art Mona Lisa as she wanders alone through Milan, her interiority separate from, yet mated with, that of her husband.
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Antonioni, master explorer of consciousness and landscape, the soul subtly externalized in the material world, the poetry of people in places. Iconic actress Jeanne Moreau plays the wife of intellectual novelist Marcello Mastroianni, her eloquent face like a modern art Mona Lisa as she wanders alone through Milan, her interiority separate from, yet mated with, that of her husband. They attend a tycoon's glamorous all-night party, encounter tempting romantic possibilities, and almost without words, asses the state of their union. It's as though Mastroianni, who lived Fellini's La Dolce Vitta (1960), is now in a more thoughtful mode—but still searching for something. With Monica Vitti.
- Original Language Title: The Night
- Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
- Principal Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti
- Country: Italy
- Year: 1961
- Running Time: 122 min.