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Second time around, Slarek finds himself unexpectedly connecting with the unhappy lead characters of LA NOTTE / THE NIGHT, Michaelangelo Antonioni's downbeat but penetrating look at a quietly collapsing marriage, which looks better than ever on this new Masters of Cinema Blu-ray edition.
Now, like the proverbial neglected middle child who suddenly comes of age and gets her chance to shine in the spotlight, La notte is looking positively radiant in the glow of fresh scrutiny as a result of this week’s eagerly anticipated release on Criterion Blu-ray (and, oh yeah, there’s a DVD only version too – presumably the last new ...
Nov 7, 2013 · Making its Region 1 high-definition debut (and now back in print after the ancient DVD inevitably went off the market), Criterion’s new Blu-ray of Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte looks exceptional. Mostly set indoors or in evening settings, the film’s extensive darkness and range of shadows present a unique challenge for 1080p rendering ...
Oct 24, 2013 · Not an inappropriate time to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s seventh feature film, his follow-up to his much-acclaimed, now-classic L’Avventura, and a film that is itself exemplary of a certain 1960s sense of European-modernity-as-Hell that was quite pervasive at the time.
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This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’avventura. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in whi...
A long time coming (L’Eclisse was released by Criterion 8 years ago, L’Avventurra 4 years before that) Criterion finally releases Michelangelo Antonioni’s La notteon Blu-ray in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this dual-layer disc. The high-definition transfer is presented in 1080p/24hz. This is an absolute stunner of a transfer: clean, natural, sharp...
The film’s audio is presented in linear 1.0 PCM mono. Like a lot of Italian films of the time most of the audio was dubbed in post-production, including dialogue, so there is a slightly detached feel to the audio, though I guess it’s suiting to the film. Sound effects were also dubbed in, part of the film’s style, allowing certain sounds to take ce...
We get a couple of strong items on this release but considering the film’s stature and the stature of its director this edition is disappointingly slim. First is an interview with Adriano Aprà and Carlo di Carlo, a 27-minute piece where the two (well, Aprà primarily) talk about the film’s visual language and various set pieces, and how it’s ultimat...
La notte is Antonioni’s “Twilight of the Gods”, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot, it’s a sprawling study of Italy’s upper middle-class; seen in close-up, it’s an x-ray of modern man’s psychic desolation.
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Apr 5, 2008 · La Notte is basically a single day and night encounter of this intellectually challenged and complex three-way affair. The film begins with Giovanni Pontana and his wife Lidia visiting a close dying friend Tomasso Garani (Bernhard Wicki) in hospital.
