La notte

Trilogy of emotions, trilogy of alienation, trilogy of contemporary discomfort - the multitude of descriptions for Antonioni's group of works from the very beginning of the 1960s not only shows the wealth of approaches to his films, but also the possible flip side of the label: setting priorities with keywords.

LA NOTTE:24 hours that depict the gradual dissolution of a relationship, the end of a love affair. Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), a successful writer, and his wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) have been married for 10 years. A visit to a sick mutual friend (Bernhard Wicki), rambles through the city and a party thrown by a major industrialist are the stages of a geometry of loneliness that Antonioni creates without dramatic effect and in razor-sharp black and white shots.