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Red Desert (Italian: Il deserto rosso) is a 1964 Italian psychological drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. Written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra , it was Antonioni's first color film .
Red Desert: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi. In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships— Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.
Apr 19, 2010 · RED DESERT, his first color film, remains one of his greatest, and confirms Antonioni as cinema's preeminent poet of the modern age. Learn more: http://www.criterion.com/films/1454. Out on...
Michelangelo Antonioni embraces color for the first time in Red Desert, deploying a searing palette and Monica Vitti's exquisite performance to tell a curious tale of unquenchable desire.
With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—RED DESERT creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.
Red Desert. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1965 Venice Film Festival and a high point of post-war European cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni's first film in colour tells the story of Giuliana (Monica Vitti), a young woman suffering a mental and emotional crisis and embarking tentatively on an affair.
