"Michelangelo Antonioni was a cinematic cubist. Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui. His work’s glamorously broody visual surfaces might have been mimicked in perfume commercials — they were hardly the only artistic invention to be co-opted by advertising — but no one has quite duplicated the way he built poetic depth from narrative shards. However exquisitely his characters suffer, their search for meaning is real. Two of the screen’s most melancholic beauties, Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni, are the searchers in 'La Notte,' which is receiving its first major stateside reissue in more than half a century. The virtuosic 1961 drama is the second film in what’s regarded as a trilogy, beginning with 'L’Avventura,' Antonioni’s international breakthrough, and concluding with 'L’Eclisse.' Made in quick succession, the three pictures explore disillusion and romantic emptiness, and they all feature Monica Vitti. ..."
LA Times: Michelangelo Antonioni's melancholy classic 'La Notte' gets a stunning restoration
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YouTube: La Notte Trailer, 1961
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