LA NOTTE (1961) ★

The second film in Antonioni's "trilogy of alienation" (or whatever you want to call it), and an improvement on the first, L'Avventura, in every way. The cinematography is more confident, the narrative energies more focused, the plot more salient, the characters more human, the emotional throughlines more legible. The ennui more palpable!

A ★★★★ review of La Notte (1961)

The second film in Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” (or whatever you want to call it), and an improvement on the first, L’Avventura, in every way. The cinematography is more confident, the narrative energies more focused, the plot more salient, the characters more human, the emotional throughlines more legible. The ennui more palpable!

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