
In a bleak rundown industrial area, young Giuliana tries to cope with life. She's married to Ugo, the manager of a local plant, but is having an affair with one of his co-workers, Corrado Zeller, who is visiting. Giuliana is unstable, not quite knowing anymore whether her role is wife, mother, or just another person in the world. Her escape from life is short-lived: Zeller is just using her to satisfy his own needs and desires.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a bleak rundown industrial area, young Giuliana tries to cope with life. She's married to Ugo, the manager of a local plant, but is having an affair with one of his co-workers, Corrado Zeller, who is visiting. Giuliana is unstable, not quite knowing anymore whether her role is wife, mother, or just another person in the world. Her escape from life is short-lived: Zeller is just using her to satisfy his own needs and desires.
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| The ListEmma SimmondsIt seems fitting that every frame should be rich with sorrow. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawWhat a mysterious film it is, with much to perplex and even exasperate, but much to fascinate as well. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinAlmost half a century on, Red Desert remains a film of rare beauty and brooding erotic intensity. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe effect is perhaps even more astounding than in his black and white films. Now, more so than using just shapes and spaces, Antonioni now gets to play with bright colors, and lack of colors. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonSwoon, ye 21st-century philistines, before the cataract of existential glamour that is Antonioni's Il deserto rosso, |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewPerhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni's entire career; and correspondingly impossible to synopsise. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzFantastically haunting psychological drama. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostBrilliant film with remarkable photography, color and originality. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterA strikingly original, melancholy work executed with painterly precision and still one of the more underrated films from this innovative director. |
| Little White LiesAndrew SchenkerRed Desert is Antonioni's clearest, most striking statement of purpose - and one of cinema's great films. |