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Il deserto rosso [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Angelo Rizzoli presenta ; un film di Michelangelo Antonioni ; soggetto e sceneggiatura [= story and screenplay], Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra ; e' un film di co-produzione Italo-Francese, Film Duemila Cinematografica Federiz (Roma), Franco Riz (Parigi) ; prodotto da [= produced by] Antonio Cervi ; regia di [= directed by] Michelangelo Antonioni.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1894D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 522.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2010.Edition: DVD editionDescription: 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1604652764
  • 9781604652765
Other title:
  • Title on container: Michelangelo Antonioni's Red desert
  • Red desert
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Strike -- Need for workers -- Still not well -- Giuliana's shop -- Fears -- Medicina -- Beliefs -- Shack -- Cry -- Mistakes -- Home -- Plans for Patagonia -- Valerio -- Story about a girl -- Giuliana and Ugo -- Readjusted -- Separate -- Yellow smoke -- Color bars.
Production credits:
  • Direttore della fotografia [= director of photography], Carlo Di Palma; montaggio [= editing], Eraldo Da Roma ; musica, Giovanni Fusco ; cantata da [= sung by] Cecilia Fusco ; diretta da [= music directed by] Carlo Savina ; musica elettronica da composizioni di [= electronic music composed by], Vittorio Gelmetti ; scenografia [= production design], Piero Poletto ; costumista [= costumes], Gitt Magrini.
  • Winner, Golden Lion (Michelangelo Antonioni), FIPRESCI Prize (Michelangelo Antonioni), 1964 Venice Film Festival.
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Emanuela Paola Carboni.Summary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of industry, surrounded by the blighted landscape of the mechanized wasteland, Guiliana faces the full horror of existential doubt alone, and modernist culture offers her no solace, comfort, or concrete prescription to alleviate her anguish.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica Vitti. Cast as Giuliana, an unhappy wife, Vitti suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but they, like she, pretend that nothing is truly wrong. British engineer Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) seems to understand what Giuliana is really after in life, and he acts upon it by entering into an affair with the troubled woman. Giuliana eventually comes to terms with her physical and mental pain, but this hardly means that she's "cured" in the conventional sense. Monica Vitti's sense of isolation is heightened by Antonioni's (and cinematographer Carlo DiPalma's) choice of colors, and especially by Carlo Savina's bizarre electronic musical score. This is a landmark movie in Antonioni's effort to portray alienated individuals in contemporary life; he places people against towering forms of technology to emphasize their smallness and lostness in the modern world of technological change. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Originally produced as an Italian/French motion picture in 1964.

Strike -- Need for workers -- Still not well -- Giuliana's shop -- Fears -- Medicina -- Beliefs -- Shack -- Cry -- Mistakes -- Home -- Plans for Patagonia -- Valerio -- Story about a girl -- Giuliana and Ugo -- Readjusted -- Separate -- Yellow smoke -- Color bars.

Direttore della fotografia [= director of photography], Carlo Di Palma; montaggio [= editing], Eraldo Da Roma ; musica, Giovanni Fusco ; cantata da [= sung by] Cecilia Fusco ; diretta da [= music directed by] Carlo Savina ; musica elettronica da composizioni di [= electronic music composed by], Vittorio Gelmetti ; scenografia [= production design], Piero Poletto ; costumista [= costumes], Gitt Magrini.

Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Emanuela Paola Carboni.

Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of industry, surrounded by the blighted landscape of the mechanized wasteland, Guiliana faces the full horror of existential doubt alone, and modernist culture offers her no solace, comfort, or concrete prescription to alleviate her anguish.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono.; widescreen presentation, preserving the 1.85:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for 16:9 televisions.

In Italian with optional subtitles in English.

Winner, Golden Lion (Michelangelo Antonioni), FIPRESCI Prize (Michelangelo Antonioni), 1964 Venice Film Festival.

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