GamerTab That was an excellent one.

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

antoniocasaca123 I think it becomes clear in the film that the relationship between Monica Vitti and Alain Delon will also fail, so distant are the ways of being each other, she (apparently) being happy with trivial and simple things and not giving value to money, he extremely "scrambled" and materialistic. It's a film with the Antonioni brand, undoubtedly, there are all the elements that characterize the films of this excellent filmmaker. The filming is magnificent, as always. Even so, I think the film is slightly below other films of the same as "la notte", "il desert rosso", "blowup" or "zabriskie point".

elvircorhodzic L'ECLISSE is a romantic drama about an alienation, life's riddles and relationships.Vittoria, a young literary translator, breaks off her relationship with her boyfriend, an older writer, in his apartment, following a long night of conversation. Sometime later, she visits her mother at the frantic Rome Stock Exchange, which is very busy upon Vittoria's entrance. She meets a young and energetic stockbroker. He is her mother's stock broker. Vittoria attempts to discuss her own recent breakup, but her mother is preoccupied with her earned profits. However, she is impressed with a young stockbroker, his character, outlook and business...Mr. Antonioni has continued his tradition. His vague and abstract pictures are a reflection of human relations and interests. The protagonists are sad, confused and somewhat lifeless. This is not a story about an unhappy or elusive love. This is a story about the needs and emotions in a material world. Mr. Antonioni has made a contrast between the inner moods of a woman and intimidating behavior of a group of people who run for the money. His unconventional narrative reveals a naked truth, especially in final scenes.The characters are lost and vague.Monica Vitti as Vittoria is a timid and suspicious young woman, who sees the pieces of greed and lust in the people around her. Due to her lack of confidence and self introversion, she is trying to establish an abstract relationship with objects. Alain Delon as Piero is a young beauty from a material world. He, unconsciously, complements Vittorias nature. However, his relaxed approach, in terms of love, has a negative effect on her.The last scenes are a kind of projection of a material life, in which a normal existence is not possible.

gavin6942 A young woman (Monica Vitti) meets a vital young man (Alain Delon), but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.Director Martin Scorsese described 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." Scorsese is easily the most knowledgeable filmmaker out there (he would be the best critic, second to none, even Kael or Ebert). I must agree with him. While I'm not terribly familiar with Italian films of the 1960s (yet), there is something about this one that is quite beautiful.

Magenta_Bob A haunting, intangibly profound film where nothing happens and Monica Vitti is leaning against things; make no mistake, it's another Michelangelo Antonioni. The first ten minutes were very good, the last ten incredible. Stunning cinematography as to be expected. I'm not sure if I saw the purpose of these long stock exchange segments - something about materialism and maybe the emptiness of it (e.g. that thing about the money people lost in the crash essentially just disappearing) I suppose.There was this great line by Vitti, something like "I wish I didn't love you or that I loved you more" which was Antonioni at his finest.