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Film Club is BACK for March with an acclaimed masterpiece by one of the most important auteurs of the 20th Century - L'ECLISSE by Michelangelo Antonioni!Starring two of the biggest stars of the sixties, the gorgeous Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, L'ECLISSE (or THE ECLIPSE) is an iconic, doomed romance, the vivid final salvo of a thematic trilogy by Italian filmmaker Antonioni (preceded by L'AVVENTURA and LA NOTTE - don't worry, you don't need to have seen the other two!) that's been described by Martin Scorsese as 'the boldest of the three'.
Filmed on location in Rome and Verona, the film follows a young woman (Vitti) pursuing an affair with a swaggering stockbroker (Delon). A strange and haunting romance, suffused with the characteristic wandering ennui of the Antonioni film, follows, leading to a stunning, highly acclaimed final sequence.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and considered by Sight and Sound to be one of the 100 greatest of all films, L'ECLISSE is a masterpiece not to be missed on the big screen. Says critic Peter Bradshaw: '[L'ECLISSE is] a twilight zone of anxiety and alienation in which the director displays his ability to slow time down a stop and allow his characters to wander in an eerily untenanted landscape... The film really is visionary: it has a gift for unearthly images to compare with Fellini: the crashed car resurrected from the water with the hand of its dead joyrider visible is unforgettable. But it also discloses an enigmatic void in its own strange, hectic little love story: almost as if extraterrestrial forces are preparing this ground for some uncanny incursion. Antonioni opens up a sinkhole of existential dismay in the Roman streets and asks us to drop down into it. What a strange and brilliant film it is.'
Catch L'ECLISSE in all it's cinematic glory on the 29th of March at the Capitol Cinema at 7.10pm. Tickets, as always, only $10. See you there!
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The Capitol Cinema, 610 Dominion Road, Balmoral,Auckland, New Zealand
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