Red Desert (1964)

NR ★ 7.3/10 117 min Drama France, Italy Italian

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Screenplay by: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Story by: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra

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This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…

Description

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

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Top Cast

Monica Vitti Giuliana

Richard Harris Corrado Zeller

Carlo Chionetti Ugo

Xenia Valderi Linda

Rita Renoir Emilia

Lili Rheims Telescope Operator's Wife

Aldo Grotti Max

Valerio Bartoleschi Valerio

Red Desert Appears on 5 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #591

Criterion Collection

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Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Sight & Sound #183

Filmmaker Curation

Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies

Letterboxd #299

Park Chan Wook's List Of 50 Favorite Films

LaCinetek #42