l'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) (OV with English subtitles)

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Let's watch a classic at the film evening of the Regentes Theatre (Weimarstraat) next Tuesday, 9th June 2015. The film is in Italian with English subtitles, tickets: 6 Euro (5 for online ticket)

L’eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccuped him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.

According to Wikipedia: "Director Martin Scorsese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese), in his documentary about Italian films, My Voyage to Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Voyage_to_Italy), describes how the film haunted and inspired him as a young moviegoer, noting it seemed to him a "step forward in storytelling" and "felt less like a story and more like a poem." He adds that the ending is "a frightening way to end a film... but at the time it also felt liberating. The final seven minutes of L'Eclisse suggested to us that the possibilities in cinema were absolutely limitless.""