A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
Cyrus Elias
- Intoxicated Man
- (uncredited)
Alba Maiolini
- Woman at the Stock Market
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe Roman stock market scenes were filmed on Sundays when the market was closed. Real brokers were drafted to make it more convincing.
- Goofs(at around 1h 28 mins) Vittoria and Piero get wet from a sprinkler. The right side of Piero's jacket is wet. A minute later when they are listening to the piano player, the back of Vittoria's blouse is still wet, but Piero's jacket is dry.
- Alternate versionsWest German theatrical version was cut by approx. three minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dolce Vitti (2014)
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L'Eclisse is about emptiness, meaningless capitalism and the nuclear threat.
Antonioni's 'L'Eclisse' depicts the emptiness and and meaningless of life in the post-Second World War world under the shadow of the nuclear threat. This is represented by the mushroom shaped water-tower looming outside the window in the film's early sequences, and is referred to again in newspaper headlines towards the end of the film. This film was made in 1962, a year after the Berlin crisis, and in the year of the Cuba crisis when we came very close to nuclear war between the USA and the USSR.
The film also depicts the greed of capitalism, as shown in the mad, chaotic scenes in the Rome Stock Exchange and the obsessive gambling of the mother character.
The location, with distant shots of Benito Mussolini's EUR buildings on the outskirts of Rome, also suggest a meaningless, empty, soulless Brave New World all overshadowed by the nuclear threat, where people suffer loneliness and depression and feel unable to make long-term commitments.
The film also depicts the greed of capitalism, as shown in the mad, chaotic scenes in the Rome Stock Exchange and the obsessive gambling of the mother character.
The location, with distant shots of Benito Mussolini's EUR buildings on the outskirts of Rome, also suggest a meaningless, empty, soulless Brave New World all overshadowed by the nuclear threat, where people suffer loneliness and depression and feel unable to make long-term commitments.
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- Tony-Papard
- Jul 1, 2005
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- The Eclipse
- Filming locations
- Rome Stock Exchange, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Vittoria and Piero meet)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $4,813
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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