Product Details

• Actors: Alain Delon
• Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni
• Format: PAL, Import
• Subtitles: English, Hungarian
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Run Time: 118 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B002IWW1P0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #564,157 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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L'Eclipse / The Eclipse / L'Eclisse / Directors Cut 118 minutes and also TV version 95 minutes on this DVD / Region 2 PAL DVD / HAS ITALIAN only Sound / ENGLISH and Hungarian subtitle option / Actors: Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Rosanna Rory / Director: Michelangelo Antonioni ASIN: B002IWW1P0 DVD Region Code: 2

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4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing images, strong acting, well worth seeing, February 10, 2011

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This review is from: L'Eclipse / The Eclipse / L'Eclisse / Directors Cut 118 minutes and also TV version 95 minutes on this DVD / Region 2 PAL DVD / HAS ITALIAN only Sound / ENGLISH and Hungarian subtitle option / Actors: Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Rosanna Rory / Director: Michelangelo Antonioni (DVD)

Physically beautiful, with an astounding last 5 minutes that elevates
the film to another level.

Like all Antonioni films, this might even improve on 2nd viewing, but less
obviously than with the better known L'Avventura. This story is less
mysterious, less surreal, so there is less a sense that one is missing
layers.

A woman leaves her fiancé, falls for a young stockbroker, and we see
that everyone cares more about money and 'things' than human
relationships. The scenes in the stock exchange are amazingly shot, and
every frame uses architecture and framing to underline the themes of
alienation and the emptiness of modern life. Monica Vitti and Alain
Delon make the two leads more human and real than earlier Antonioni
main characters.

But a number of scenes just feel clunky, even if beautiful, and some
ideas seem overstated or over-repeated.

That said, the experimental last five minutes, which puts the themes in
a wider, more global context, is very moving and special. And to be
fair, many love this even more than I, though not in the the near
universal embrace of L'Avventura.