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Il deserto rosso (English: The red desert is a Michelangelo Antonioni movie filmed in 1964 starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris and others. It is Michelangelo's first color film.

The plot

The story is about the young mentally distressed woman Guiliana who suffered a car accident. Although she is married to Ugo, plant designer, and has a young son, she feels separated from the world that surrounds her. She does not know how to connect to it and feels that something in it is terribly wrong. Ugo's friend Zeller, who came to Ravenna to make a business deal, pursues her attracted by her beauty and enigma. He begins to understand her troubles better than her preoccupied husband, but it is still not enough.

It is a story about the harshness of humanity and its blindness to see the world it created. Only the neurotic Guiliana is awakened, seeing and feeling the profound alienation and suffering it all.

The story is set in the industrial area of Ravenna that decorates cold and silent factories and machines, and a harbour. The story is much told by the language of colors, scenery and sounds involving pastel colors with the cold whiteness, repetitive ghostly sound of ship horns, scenes of smoke and fog covering everything. The film astonishes with its beautiful imagery, elegantly conducted atmosphere, interesting poetic dialogues and the moral of the story gaining high artistic value.

Awards

This film was awarded the Golden Lion at The Venice Film Festival in 1964.

Deserto rosso, Il

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