The Eclipse (L'Eclisse)

Nothing prepared me for the black face scene in this film.

Quintin Kuo

in which two of the most beautiful people in human history desperately try to convince each other that they're both not depressed bourgeois burnouts

comrade_yui

Those 58 shots of absolute nothingness in the last 7 minutes are the highest piece of pure cinema.

Vladimir

“i wish i didn’t love you or that i loved you much more” 

forelavy

The Monica Vitti Homewrecker Trilogy concludes in a world where if clothes tear it's their own fault. As mystifying and shadowy as the human condition is presented within Antonioni's pessimistic fantasy there's still something more baffling within L'eclisse: just how do…

Marcissus

What is love when it leaves no trace? Is it the heat of a glance across the stock exchange floor, or just the habit of bodies killing time? Do you miss them or just the space they no longer fill? This is exactly what the film is about. A hand on skin. A laugh cut short. A…

noen

alain delon continues to be the hottest person who has ever lived, antonioni continues to elude me and excite me in equal measure, and blackface continues to ruin movies for me (9/10 from 1962)

nora

45/100 Was excited to revisit this—I found it painfully enervating back in 1995, but my taste has evolved significantly since then, and recent viewings of L'Avventura and especially La Notte went swimmingly. (The first half of the latter is Antonioni's zenith, imo, though…

Mike D'Angelo

Deadly silence opens L'Eclisse. It's calm and collected, an ordered relationship breaking down, quiet chaos about to ensue. That chaos is something our entire life depends on, like the stocks the whole economy rests on, full of ups and downs, destined to collapse in a…

Darren Carver-Balsiger