La Notte 1961 123movies

Watch: La notte 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani who is terminally ill in a hospital, write Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his latest book, and his wife Lidia visits the place where she lived many years ago. That night they go to a nightclub, then to a party at tycoon Gherardini’s mansion. Through the night Giovanni flirts with his host’s daughter Valentina Gherardini–while Lidia flirts with playboy Roberto–and receives a proposal to work for him in the area of communication and write the history of his company..
Plot: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
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	8.0/10 Votes: 21,720
	86% | RottenTomatoes
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Reviews:

Distant, beautiful, difficult and absorbing
Challenging and emotionally muted on 1st viewing, I still found this largely a very interesting portrait of a bourgeois marriage crumbling, observed during one afternoon and night.

The couple visit a seemingly dying friend in the hospital, attend a book signing for the husband’s new novel, stop at a nightclub where they barely even react to an erotic floor show, and then head to a party for a rich industrialist who is celebrating the first win by his new racehorse, Both Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau do terrific work as the deadened and estranged couple. He no longer even identifies with his own writing, feeling it’s just a product, like that made by the industrialist. He’s even lost his sense of lust. She no longer feels love for him, and seems locked in loneliness and depression. It’s a tough movie to take, grim, humorless, almost as dead feeling as its leads, but that would seem to be the point.

My only problem, as I’ve occasionally had with Antonioni, is that well before the end I felt I had gotten these themes clearly and powerfully, and there was, after that, a certain sense of hammering home ideas that had already been expressed beautifully with a lighter touch (there’s a key reveal near the end that I saw coming a mile off). But the images (of course) are striking and memorable, as are the performances, and the sad gloom that hovers over this world of people who seem to have it all, and yet feel so little.

The Postmodern World
When this came out, postmodern literature was hitting its prime. Nabokov, Beckett, etc. Pontano says he knows what he wants to write but is struggling with how to write it. We wonder if he even cares about art at all or if it’s just a mechanism for him to get women, or to feel important.

Love is dead. We go from island to island of affection, mindless of the substance, just searching for the next pleasure. This is confirmed in the end when Pontano doesn’t recognize something he’d written a long time ago. There’s no artistic identity, no purpose. Do we all die like Tommaso, disconnected from friends, family? Pontano’s notion of the intellectual is as an obsolete hermit, and one who considers taking a PR job — the soul is dead in the modern world. I’m sure this is what Antonioni was struggling with.

The use of architecture is wonderful. The staging shows beams intersecting human interaction, reflections in windows offering different angles, ghosts of the postmodern world. Figures receding into shadows, emerging into light. The opening descent is a reflection of the city in one of its bodies, as all the bodies in this film are just reflections of one another, in decline.

In the end they leave the convoluted architecture of the house and emerge into nature. But the nature turns out to be a golf course. We’re all trapped in the world we’ve crafted.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti
Country Italy, France
Awards 6 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono, Mono (Fono-Roma)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package (restored version)