Red Desert

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Antonioni, Michelangelo, filmmaker .

Kanopy (Firm)

Language:

Italian

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 118 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2016

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age-about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband's coworker, played by Richard Harris-continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another-of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships-Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema's preeminent poet of the modern age

Notes:

In Process Record

Title from title frames

Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1964

OCLC:

1232179658

Publisher Number:

1143162 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license