
In the suburbs of Rome, translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, writer Riccardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets materialist broker Piero on a day the stock-market crashes. Piero and Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the suburbs of Rome, translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, writer Riccardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets materialist broker Piero on a day the stock-market crashes. Piero and Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.
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| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoBecause Antonioni shoots characters and places in ways that make them look unfamiliar, the impact makes the slow pacing and lack of clarity not just endurable, but ecstatic. |
| Hollywood ReporterDouglas Pratt...sit back, suppress the subtitles so they don't distract you from the images and let the 125-minute movie suspend and substitute your consciousness like the moon passing in front the sun. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsAn exhilarating slow dance of not-quite-colliding bodies. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsHow wonderful that, especially in its newly finessed form, this cinematic milestone remains as pertinent, intriguing and seductive as ever. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher Long(Vittoria) desires... something, and the inability to articulate her need only heightens the desperation to fulfill it. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonSeeing Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse (a.k.a. "Eclipse") a second time has convinced me that it's the director's best film, and therefore the best Italian movie ever made. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's loose trilogy (preceded by L'Avventura and La Notte), this 1961 film is conceivably the best in Antonioni's career, but significantly it has the least consequential plot. |
| VarietyVariety StaffVitti once again proves an ideal performer for Antonioni's thematics in what is probably her best role to date. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchVitti's elegant languor is contrasted with the cacophony of the Rome stock exchange, which is the director's metaphor for the madness of unrestrained capitalism. |
| Sight and SoundPenelope HoustonIn The Eclipse... juxtaposition has become fusion: the two landscapes are made one, the visual imagery and the mental imagery effortlessly interlock. |