Red Desert (Il deserto rosso)

Name: Red Desert (Il deserto rosso)
Duration: 1 h 57 min

1hr 57m

1hr 57m
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In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Producer:

Antonio Cervi, Angelo Rizzoli

Release Date:

Feb 8, 1965

Runtime:

1hr 57m

Synopsis

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

Cast

Monica Vitti
Richard Harris
Carlo Chionetti
Xenia Valderi
Rita Renoir
Aldo Grotti
Valerio Bartoleschi
Giuliano Missirini
Lili Rheims
Emanuela Mino Carboni

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4.0

Aug 24, 2021

Possibly Antonioni's most brilliant and profound work, where modernist neurosis and alienation are not born of circumstances that must be eliminated but rather are conditions that the human must adapt too, as the history of human development catches up with the development…

1.1K Likes

Neil Bahadur

Aug 18, 2015

I live in a remote area because of my job. An area that has nothing except for a huge factory and some small rooms for the employees. They call it a complex, I call it a cemetery. Every time I go into my room I feel the emptiness it feels. The small bed right beside the…

708 Likes

Vladimir

Mar 9, 2017

83 Howling loneliness - a world so mechanical, people have forgotten how to be humans. Antonioni breaks down opaque connections to their limits, finding truth in little details (a lack of subtitles makes an emotional cross-road akin to an unheard cry for help) and a…

593 Likes

SilentDawn
Sep 9, 2020

i get it, yeahhh. but god i don't care. edit 6 years later: please don't insinuate i'm the problem - it isn't the story i don't care about, it's the storytelling.

407 Likes

emma katharine

Mar 3, 2021

Towards the end of Red Desert, Monica Vitti’s Giuliana declares that there’s something terrible about reality but that she doesn’t know what it is. In saying this, she cuts to the core of the film. This feature presents a cold, industrialised world of endemic loneliness and…

367 Likes

Stephen Gillespie

Jul 6, 2022

The boy asks his mother: "why is the smoke yellow?" She explains that it's poison. He asks her if the birds die. "They know by now. They don't fly there anymore" she replies. The birds are gone, yet she’s still here. Never have I seen such an industrial toxic wasteland…

336 Likes

Lowe McKee
Aug 24, 2025

We've built an atomized society and completely denuded the earth of beauty and you're the crazy one for not adapting to it!

301 Likes

Will Sloan

Jun 4, 2025

I feel as if I’ve lost myself...trapped in the paradox of feeling only my own presence, yet unable to grasp who that self truly is. The world around me dissolves into a haze, a fog that chills and clouds every sense. There’s nothing solid to hold onto, nothing but this…

295 Likes

wersku

Jul 13, 2026

Sound + Picture + Color + Performance + Intent + Execution. The total package.

277 Likes

Sean Fennessey

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Adam Williams liked

Red Desert

Thematically similar to Antonioni's preceding films but for the first time working in color -- Antonioni and Monica Vitti create an industrial wasteland with some really striking visual compositions.

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Red Desert

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