Filed under: 1960's, Antonioni, Cinematheque, Delon, Alain, Italian, Vitti, Monica
Antonioni, 1962.
Saw this long ago. Hated it. Excruciating long shot of – I don’t remember what. A clock? It might have well have been nothing.
Now it’s got Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, so we’ve got something to look at for sure. But ui still went to see Blow Up this year (2009), in part because it’s in the film canon, and because of teh Mel Brooks spin off. Blow Up shows you that the fellow had a glimpse of that horrible,stifling plague on film we call narrative – who could imagine such a terrible restriction? Plot! Something to hold your attention! Sunstance, attached to style…
But as far as I recall L’Eclisse was a real auteur film, meaning in the unfortunate way, where the film becomes a sort of pragmatic neurotic expression of goodness knows what fetish the director has on that certain day, instead of being a cohesive tale for an audience. Myself, I’m not very keen on a diary, simpley because it is indescernable, being passed off as art. Um, so, I dont recommend this film.
