SILVER

The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise, following L’AVVENTURA and LA NOTTE, L’ECLISSE has been described by Martin Scorsese as the boldest of the three. It tells the story of a young literary translator (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another, an ambitious stockbroker played by a fresh-faced but typically smoldering Alain Delon. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world. (Note adapted from Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Michelangelo Antonioni; SCR Tonino Guerra; PROD Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim. Italy, 1962, b&w, 126 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED

In Memoriam: Alain Delon (1935–2024)