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Red Desert [Blu-ray] [1964]

monica vitti , richard harris , michelangelo antonioni    Suitable for 15 years and over   Blu-ray
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: monica vitti, richard harris
  • Directors: michelangelo antonioni
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Italian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Bfi
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Oct 2008
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001DFINIM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,252 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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This 1960s Italian drama stars Monica Vitti and Richard Harris and marks director Michelangelo Antonioni's first venture into colour film. Guiliana (Vitti) becomes mentally unstable after being in a car accident but tries to keep her condition from her husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Lonely, she begins to open up to Ugo's business associate, Corrado (Harris), and they gradually become closer as they spend more time together. Meanwhile, she suffers setbacks that only seem to add to her feeling of isolation.

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giuliana (monica vitti), moglie di ugo (carlo chionetti), un dirigente industriale, e' depressa e tormentata. il suo senso di insoddisfazione e di inadeguatezza, che l'ha spinta sull'orlo del suicidio, non fa cenno di placarsi, complice l'assenza del marito e l'alienazione di una modernita' priva di significato autentico.l'ingegner corrado zeller (richard harris), amico e collega di ugo, sembra esser l'unico in grado di penetrare il mistero e l'isolamento in cui versa giuliana, che non ha tratto alcun giovamento dalla sua temporanea permanenza in una clinica psichiatrica, dopo il tentato suicidio, cui, nei dialoghi, si fa sempre riferimento definendolo un incidente stradale.il film procede con lentezza, in una sequenza di eventi quotidiani apparentemente poco importanti, visti pero' con il filtro della sensibilita' di giuliana, per cui la realta', dalla quale ella si percepisce sconnessa, cela qualcosa di terribile e di sbagliato.un'uscita con un gruppo di amici della coppia diventa un'occasione per mettere in risalto la distanza che intercorre tra giuliana e un contesto che non le appartiene, perche' troppo meschino e insensato.l'apparente malattia del piccolo figlio di giuliana, che mette in eccessivo allarme la madre, ma si rivela essere un tentativo di attirare l'attenzione e non andare all'asilo, scatena l'ennesima crisi della protagonista, che, in preda alla disperazione, si reca da corrado, in partenza per la patagonia.nemmeno corrado, con cui giuliana finisce per tradire il marito, dopo un'intensa relazione fatta di sguardi e cenni d'intesa, riesce ad aiutarla, perche', a sua volta, e' incapace di adattarsi alla realta' che lo circonda, da cui scappa viaggiando continuamente.il film si conclude con un ultimo sguardo sul contesto industriale in cui e' ambientato. giuliana, ormai rassegnata, si allontana assieme al proprio figlio

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Il Deserto Rosso 22 Jan 2009
I have to take issue with the previous review.
The BFI sourced the transfer of 'Red Desert' to Blu Ray from the original negative. Reviewers with far more technical knowledge than I have say the colours are true to the original 35mm release. I have seen the Blu Ray projected and the depth of colour, definition and healthy amount of film grain present, (In other words, the filmic look has not been smoothed out too much with restoration tools), create a truly fantastic home cinema experience.
If you view this or indeed any Blu Ray on a small TV or PC Monitor, then you will not see a difference in definition. You need a full 1080p TV of 40" or larger, in most cases, to really appreciate the difference between HD and SD.
But enough technical stuff, this film haunts me, Monica Vitti a pale chimera in Antonioni's bleached, barren yet beguiling poem to alienation, abstraction and industrialisation.
This Blu Ray is the cue for cineasts to go Hi-Def! Buy it now!
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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Il film è uno dei classici di Antonioni. Il restauro è eccellente, il film è presentato nella versione originale italiana, ma purtroppo ci sono i sottotitoli in inglese non eliminabili. Tolto questo piccolo "difetto" la buona operazione rimane.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Undertones but no conclusion 2 May 2011
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I guess this one is mainly for fans of the work of Antonio, can I suggest a real "Cult" presentation in that regard.
The transfer is fine and there are great atmospheric shots throughout.
However the main theme, which is the sort of relationship between Mr Harris and the female lead, never really goes anywhere.
Nice to have the good feel in the shooting, even though some shots are out of focus which I'm sure wasn't intended and should have been re-done, one is left wondering if their DVD player stopped ahead of where it should have!
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully constructed piece of cinema 21 May 2011
"There's something terrible in reality," Guiliana (Monica Viti) tells Corrado Zeller (Richard Harris) towards the end of the film. This statement encapsulates Viti's character perfectly. Guiliana is withdrawn, has bouts of anxiety and paranoia. She had previously been in a car accident involving a van and been hospitalised for a year with serious shock. This role is played beautifully by Viti (who had collaborated with Antonioni on his three previous films); whilst she strikes the occasional contorted pose, she uses her eyes majestically to portray a fractured, anxious thought process. If her eyes are not frantically darting around, encapsulating immaculate confusion, then they are sunken, glacial, and permeated with sadness.

Guiliana is married, but on meeting her, Corrado seems almost infatuated with her awkward, unstable demeanour. They enter into a subdued affair that is restrained by her seemingly perpetual elusiveness. She is haunted by details - that we have no awareness - of the road accident. It could also be argued that Guiliana is affected by the surroundings she inhabits. The film is set in Ravenna, an industrialised, bleak landscape of factories; chimneys pumping out fumes, infecting the horizon with a dense fog. All that is left of the natural surroundings of field and trees, is the bare-bones of rotten, forgotten husks. The once-green grass churned into slurry. The infected waters, yellow and frothing as the waves hit the poisonous rocks.

This was Michelangelo Antonioni's first film in colour. The last in a loose tetralogy informed with themes of alienation in the modern, industrialised world. Red Desert was preceded by L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L'eclisse (1962).
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1 of 27 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Item never shipped 17 Feb 2010
I live in the USA. The item was deemed "undeliverable," the first time this has happened with Amazon UK. Extremely frustrating.
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