Product Details

• Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati
• Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Format: Import, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Full length, Adult, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Run Time: 118 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001E1IIDA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,547 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Region 2 - Pal**Import***Region Free DVD Player REQUIRED****Italian Audio with New and Improved English Subtitles*** Cover in English**Original version with previously censored sequences restored for the first time ** He is a renowned author; she is "the wife". Over the course of one day and the night, they will come to re-examine their emotional bonds, and wonder if love and communication are even possible in a world built out of immoral and decadent encounters mixed with sexual hysteria. ***One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, "La Notte" marked another development in the continuous evolution of Michelangelo Antonioni. It enforces his reputation as one of the greatest director of the century. This movie is an x-ray of modern man's psychologic emptiness and misery.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The end of the affair, January 18, 2009

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jeanne Moreau in The Night DVD Aka La Notte DVD, Dare e avere, Noch DVD Import Region 2 Pal Remastered Uncut + Booklet (DVD)

Masters of Cinema's new UK Region 2 PAL DVD of Michaelangelo Antonioni's La Notte may not have many extras (just a trailer and a detailed booklet) but it has marvellous picture quality that puts Fox-Lorber's previous US release to shame - it looks like it was shot yesterday, which is just as well since the visuals are so important.

Surprisingly accessible, it's one of the great films about architecture - not just the architecture of a city in transition but the emotional architecture of a relationship in quiet crisis. There's a real attention to the shape of things, with clear, clean lines that people never quite fit in. For much of the film Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau are constantly separated even when sharing the same frame while in some scenes it is hard to tell what is the reflection and what is the real image, consigning characters to a virtual visual limbo, ghosts haunting their own empty lives.

It defines the state of their relationship in much the same way that Anthony Mann's films use the landscape to define character rather than just to create an environment, going further to offer a state of the nation address. Moreau is part of an Italy that's being torn down and discarded: Mastroianni is drifting towards a post-war modernity where conspicuous wealth and angular concrete, steel and glass design create a kind of anonymous gilded inertia where trivia surpasses real heartfelt connection with people or the past. The relationship is in its last gasps, occupying a kind of wasteland awaiting redevelopment: the scene with Moreau dispassionately reading a love letter filled with powerful and passionate emotions that Mastroianni has forgotten he ever had (he doesn't even remember who wrote the letter) is a killer.

Besides, the film comes highly recommended in the end credits of Monty Python's Life of Brian ('If you have enjoyed this film, why not go and see La Notte?'), so you know it's worth it!