The middle movie of Michelangelo Antonioni's loosely tied and gradually declining "trilogy," in which the one constant is Monica Vitti. (Why doesn't Red Desert make it a tetralogy?) There are any number of stiff and stilted moments in this portrait of a middle-class marriage disintegrating in ennui, but the director has a fine eye — if sometimes a didactic or a despotic one — for the chilly living conditions of modern man. And he has a fine cinematographer, too, Gianni Di Venanzo. With Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. (1961) — Duncan Shepherd
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