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Red Desert
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 0014381478020
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 21, 1999
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1965
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Editorial Review:
Richard Harris and Monica Vitti star in writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece. An alienated Italian wife searches for meaning in the industrial lunar landscape of Northern Italy, to no avail. Highly acclaimed as a masterpiece of visual form and the winner of the International Critics Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1964.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Masterpiece
Michelangelo Antonioni is often referred to as a director whose work is not for all tastes. Well, what artist is? What the utterer of such sentiments usually means is that they do not `like' his films, because they are not filled with insipid action, worse dialogue, lack of character development, etc. In fact, some critics of Antonioni even claim that his characters are all warped and one dimensional loners, potential Lee Harvey Oswald types bathed in depression and anomy. What this evidences is ... Read More
Rating: - Complex, puzzle, claustrophobic, disturbing and brilliant film!
The first Opus in color of Michelangelo Antonioni is not an easy going film to watch. It is extremely meticulous and harrowing picture. For the first time the rarefied atmosphere of the industrial processes, the marshy environment, the unbearable machines sound, the cloudy weather originated from industrial remainders, the overpopulation metaphor in the trailer, and the grind existential has never been expressed in the screen with such visual power and cynicism.
This gradual alienation has transformed ... Read More
Rating:  - Long Desert, Almost Empty
This film, although gorgeous to watch, is not something easy to behold. Most of the dialogue is mundane and tedious and the protagonists are annoying, spoiled and confounded bourgeoisie. Antonni drags us through their life and its like being dragged along some empty desert by a blind horse. What does he expect from us? Does he want us to side with the ill-fated Monnica Viti who eventually commits suicide in the end? Or does he want us to show that the desert is something very temporary? Either way, the film is ... Read More
Rating: - you should own this beautiful film
(rev. 10/4/03)
I don't care if its the orange-tinted DVD copy, or whatever, you have to own at least one copy of this film. It is so very beautiful, and bears repeated viewings. I've seen it forty times, and this is a conservative estimate.
(While you're at it, be sure to see - and own, if your prehensile to the direction in which I hint - Antonioni/Wenders effort, BEYOND THE CLOUDS, a film I saw in a battered print in an art house, after it had made the rounds for a couple of years - and was ... Read More
Rating: - Spiritual Desert of the Modern
This film is as stark as they come. It begins with lingering shots of an industrial waste land and a confused Monica Vitti wandering aimless within it. Vitti we slowly find out has had some sort of break down and each sequence of the film serves to elaborate the distance she has fallen away from reality. She attempts to find relief from her mental anguish by having an affair with a man who seems to intuitively understand her but the affair does not bring peace to her troubled state of mind. Though Antonioni's first ... Read More
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