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La Notte

Original title: La notte
  • 19611961
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  • 2h 2m
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8.0/10
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Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, and Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
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A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

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  • Director
    • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writers
    • Michelangelo Antonioni(story)
    • Ennio Flaiano(story)
    • Tonino Guerra(story)
  • Stars
    • Jeanne Moreau
    • Marcello Mastroianni
    • Monica Vitti
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  • Director
    • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writers
    • Michelangelo Antonioni(story)
    • Ennio Flaiano(story)
    • Tonino Guerra(story)
  • Stars
    • Jeanne Moreau
    • Marcello Mastroianni
    • Monica Vitti
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    • 58User reviews
    • 72Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 2 nominations

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    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    La notte (1961)
    La notte (1961)
    La notte (1961)
    Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)
    Jeanne Moreau in La notte (1961)
    La notte (1961)
    Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti in La notte (1961)

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    Jeanne Moreau
    Jeanne Moreau
    • Lidia Pontanoas Lidia Pontano
    Marcello Mastroianni
    Marcello Mastroianni
    • Giovanni Pontanoas Giovanni Pontano
    Monica Vitti
    Monica Vitti
    • Valentina Gherardinias Valentina Gherardini
    Bernhard Wicki
    Bernhard Wicki
    • Tommaso Garanias Tommaso Garani
    Rosy Mazzacurati
    • Resyas Resy
    Maria Pia Luzi
    • Nymphomaniacas Nymphomaniac
    Guido A. Marsan
    • Fantias Fanti
    • (as Guido Ajmone Marsan)
    Vittorio Bertolini
    Vincenzo Corbella
    • Mr. Gherardinias Mr. Gherardini
    Ugo Fortunati
    • Cesarinoas Cesarino
    Gitt Magrini
    • Signora Gherardinias Signora Gherardini
    Giorgio Negro
    • Robertoas Roberto
    Roberta Speroni
    • Beatriceas Beatrice
    Valentino Bompiani
    • Selfas Self
    • (uncredited)
    Roberto Danesi
      Umberto Eco
      Umberto Eco
      • Man at the Partyas Man at the Party
      • (uncredited)
      Giansiro Ferrata
        Giorgio Gaslini
        • Selfas Self
        • (uncredited)
        • Director
          • Michelangelo Antonioni
        • Writers
          • Michelangelo Antonioni(story) (screenplay)
          • Ennio Flaiano(story) (screenplay)
          • Tonino Guerra(story) (screenplay)
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        Storyline

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        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. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
        • party
        • writer
        • marriage
        • reference to ernest hemingway
        • husband wife relationship
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        • Taglines
          • Many nights led to this night, nights of time, nights of fear, nights of love, nights of loneliness, nights of pursuit and conquest, nights without privacy, and this night - a night of truth.
        • Genre
          • Drama
        • Certificate
          • Not Rated
        • Parents guide

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        • Trivia
          One of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films.
        • Goofs
          When Giovanni pours champagne in the hospital, Bernhard Wicki (Tommaso) looks straight to the camera while turning his head from Lidia to Giovanni.
        • Quotes

          Lidia: [reading from a piece of paper] "When I awoke this morning, you were still asleep. As I slowly emerged from my slumber, I heard your gentle breathing and through the wisps of hair over your face I saw your closed eyes and I could barely contain my emotion. I wanted to cry out, to wake you up, because you slept so deeply, you almost seemed lifeless. In the half light, the skin of your arms and throat appeared so vibrant, so warm and dry that I longed to press my lips against it, but the thought of disturbing your sleep, of you awake in my arms again, held me back. I preferred you like this, something on one could take from me bacause it was mine alone - - this image of you that would be everlasting. Beyond your face I saw my own reflection in a vision that was pure and deep. I saw you in a dimension that encompassed all the times of my life, all the years to come, even the years past as I was preparing to meet you. That was the little miracle of this waking moment: to feel for the first time that you were and always would be mine and that this night would go on forever with you beside me, - with the warmth of your blood, your thoughts, and your will mixed with mine. At that moment, I realized how much I loved you, Lidia, and the intensity of the emotion was such that tears welled up in my eyes. For I felt that this must never end, that all our lives should be like an echo of this dawn, with you no belonging to me but actually a part of me, something breathing within me that could could ever destroy except the apathy of habit, which is the only threat I see. Then you awoke and with a sleepy smile, kissed me, and I felt there was nothing to fear that we'd always be as we were at that moment, bound by something stronger than time and habit."

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        8/10
        Not as engaging in it's detachted style as L'Avventura, worthwhile none-the-less
        La Notte is very content to be a film seemingly about the mundane in the bourgeois world of an Italian couple. But what makes it worthwhile is that the time that Antonioni gives for the scenes and actors to breathe- ironically enough considering their social and intimate repression- allows for some curious moments to slip through (some of his best directed). The married couple here of the great Marcello Mastroianni and face-of-a-thousand-words Jeanne Moreau are not necessarily un-happy but unsatisfied with how their lives are at this point. The husband is a very successful and admired author, and they are well off. But the question still arises, underneath as the subtext in many scenes, what's it all really worth? Two of the main set-pieces/sequences in the film revolve around Moreau walking around aimlessly through the city while her husband is at a signing party, and at a rich party at night with a spacious amount of room for the guests.

        All of these little, seemingly mundane moments are not all that the film is made up of, and it is in this existential (if it is relatively speaking) crisis for this couple that what real life that's out there and real pains strike up here and there. I loved the moment where Mastroianni is confronted by a seemingly crazy girl at the hospital; is she really crazy, or just desperate for someone's affection or attention (she is later beat into submission by the nurses)? Or when Moreau sees a fight break out with some young men in the less well-off section of town, the hesitation and surprise suddenly throws the fighters off. The party itself- where-in the 'Night' of the title is revealed- has moments of dialog that strike up the symbolic points Antonioni is making. But unlike the director's previous film, the visual-side of the cinematography has its moments but not necessarily as extraordinary in its overall make-up. Yet the initial peaks of interest- both in the actors (particularly Moreau who is always a treasure) and in the final, contemplative act with Monica Vitti, endures with better results.

        Maybe the least in the 'trilogy' that Antonioni made between 1960 and 1962, which still makes it more watchable than the usual art-house bores of late. There is almost TOO much room for pondering about these characters, which makes for what could be seen as 'dull', but it really isn't. Detached, maybe, but not hard to connect with if open enough, this is a very good film if not one of the director's best.
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        • Quinoa1984
        • May 21, 2006

        Details

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        • Release date
          • February 19, 1962 (United States)
        • Countries of origin
          • Italy
          • France
        • Languages
          • Italian
          • English
          • French
        • Also known as
          • The Night
        • Filming locations
          • Milan, Lombardia, Italy
        • Production companies
          • Nepi Film
          • Sofitedip
          • Silver Films
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        Box office

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        • Gross US & Canada
          • $39,236
        • Opening weekend US & Canada
          • $10,547
          • Sep 18, 2016
        • Gross worldwide
          • $40,703
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        • Runtime
          2 hours 2 minutes
        • Color
          • Black and White
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.85 : 1

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