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The Red Desert review by from Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire

Colour! Enthralling ... 14 December 2009
...opening sequence alone, before anything happens, is breathtaking - even without Monica Vitti! Antonioni and di Palma have clearly absorbed and extended the sort of lessons... Read customer review

La Notte review by A customer from Leeds, England

tense and unnerving! 29 May 2008
...nne Moreau in the main roles and featuring an appearance from Antonioni's muse, Monica Vitti, this is essentially (like many of Antonioni's other films) a character study a... Read customer review

L'Avventura review by A customer from London, England

Perfect 10 January 2007
... viewer you are, you will certainly enjoy the hypnotic performance of the great Monica Vitti. ... Read customer review

Monica Vitti - filmography

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey, Angela Molina
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Buñuel's bizarre stroke is having Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina alternate playing the maid!

71% from 1,076 member
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That Obscure Object Of Desire - Blu-ray (1977)
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey, Angela Molina
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A tale of impossible desire from director Luis Bunuel. Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a widowed French businessman, becomes obsessed with a Spanish girl named Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina). She claims to feel the same for him but nevertheless continually frustrates the realisation of his ..read more »

70% from 38 members

Flic Story on DVD (1975)
Starring: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Deray
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Based on the true story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947, who escaped capture by killing the police's informants.

67% from 170 members

The Phantom of Liberty on DVD (1974)
Starring: Angela Molina, Adriana Asti, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Bunuel
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One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes

71% from 746 members

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Blu-ray (1972)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Fernando Rey
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's surrealist satire takes on targets as diverse as South American politics, the upper class and religion. Well-to-do couple the Thévenots (Paul Frankeur and Delphine Seyrig), accompany M. Thévenot's colleague Rafael Acosta (Fernando Rey) and Mme. Thévenot's sister Florence (Bulle Ogier),..read more »

70% from 100 members

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on DVD (1972)
Starring: Angela Molina, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Buñuel, Luis Bunuel
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Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment...

70% from 1,809 member

Tristana on DVD (1970)
Starring: Lola Gaos, Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don ..read more »

66% from 1,131 member

Dramma della gelosia - Tutti i Particola... (1970)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini
Director: Ettore Scola
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The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The ..read more »

70% from 4 members
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The Milky Way on DVD (1969)
Starring: Paul Frankeur, Angela Molina, Laurent Terzieff
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Two tramps put their faith to the test as they travel a long hard road to reach Compostello in Spain.

63% from 624 members

Belle De Jour - Blu-ray (1967)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Fernando Rey
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A bored doctor's wife (Catherine Deneuve) hears of a brothel operating near her home. Struck by a sudden desire, she goes to the brothel and offers her services in the afternoons. She encounters a wide range of characters, eventually running into a friend of her husband...Surreal tale directed by ..read more »

65% from 408 members

Belle De Jour on DVD (1967)
Starring: Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Bunuel
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Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.

67% from 3,594 members

Modesty Blaise on DVD (1966)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Joseph Losey
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Essentially everything is played for its camp value, including the rather convoluted, James Bond-like plot, which concerns the hijacking of a shipment of diamonds heading for the Middle East.

50% from 243 members

The Red Desert on DVD (1964)
Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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This 1960s Italian drama stars Monica Vitti and Richard Harris and marks director Michelangelo Antonioni's first venture into colour film. Guiliana (Vitti) becomes mentally unstable after being in a car accident but tries to keep her condition from her husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Lonely, she ..read more »

67% from 787 members

Diary Of a Chambermaid on DVD (1964)
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Daniel Ivernel
Director: Luis Bunuel
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A young French woman takes a job as a chambermaid in Paris in the 1930s. Her employment is overshadowed by the murder of a little girl and a menacing gardener.

68% from 911 members

The Red Desert - Blu-ray (1964)
Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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This 1960s Italian drama stars Monica Vitti and Richard Harris and marks director Michelangelo Antonioni's first venture into colour film. Guiliana (Vitti) becomes mentally unstable after being in a car accident but tries to keep her condition from her husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Lonely, she ..read more »

64% from 244 members

Alain Delon - The Screen Icon's Collection (5 discs) on DVD (1962)
Starring: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on modern malaise. 'The Eclipse' tells the story of a young woman (Vitti) who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another.

70% from 627 members

L'Eclisse on DVD (1962)
Starring: Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise. 'The Eclipse' tells the story of a young woman (Vitti) who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another.

72% from 466 members

La Notte on DVD (1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and "public intellectual"; she is "the wife." Over the course of one day and the night into which ..read more »

73% from 836 members

La Notte - Blu-ray (1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and "public intellectual"; she is "the wife." Over the course of one day and the night into which ..read more »

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The Young One on DVD (1960)
Starring: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman
Director: Luis Bunuel
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An jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions

67% from 280 members

L'Avventura on DVD (1960)
Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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The first part of a loose trilogy by director Michelangelo Antonioni, parts two and three of which were 'La Notte' and 'L'Eclisse'. It concerns Claudia, Anna and Sandro (Sandro being the lover of Anna), who embark on a cruise on which Anna disappears. Sandro and Claudia set off in search for her ..read more »

68% from 1,639 member

Luis Bunuel collection
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Fernando Rey, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Luis Bunuel
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The collected works of the famed Spanish-born director Luis Bunuel. Titles included: 'That Obscure Object of Desire', (1977) 'The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie', (1972) 'The Diary of A Chambermaid', (1964) 'Phantom Of Liberty', (1974) 'Milky Way' (1969) 'Tristana', (1970) 'La Joven', (1960) and ..read more »

68% from 1,949 member
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Monica Vitti facts

5 most recent films

That Obscure Object of Desire - 3.5 stars
That Obscure Object Of Desire - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Flic Story - 3.5 stars
The Phantom of Liberty - 3.5 stars
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

La Notte - 3.5 stars
L'Eclisse - 3.5 stars
That Obscure Object of Desire - 3.5 stars
The Phantom of Liberty - 3.5 stars
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

La Notte - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Dramma della gelosia - Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca - 3.5 stars
That Obscure Object Of Desire - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Modesty Blaise - 2.5 stars
The Milky Way - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jeanne Moreau - 15 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 13 times - show films
Jean Sorel - 13 times - show films
Catherine Deneuve - 13 times - show films
Michel Piccoli - 13 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Luis Bunuel - 13 times - show films
Michelangelo Antonioni - 8 times - show films
Jacques Deray - 1 times - show films
Luis Buñuel - 1 times - show films
Ettore Scola - 1 times - show films

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