Alain Delon - The Screen Icon's Collection details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner, Lilla Brignone, Rosanna Rory, Rosanna Rory / |
| Director: | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Genres: | Drama - Romantic, Crime, Romance, Thriller - Crime, World Cinema - French, Italian |
| Name | Discs | |
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Plein Soleil |
PG Disc 1 | |
L'Eclisse |
PG Disc 2 | |
Un Flic |
12 Disc 3 | |
Traitement de Choc |
15 Disc 4 | |
Flic Story |
15 Disc 5 |
DVD Information
| Rental release: | 25 Jun 2007 |
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| Main languages: | English |
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Review of L'Eclisse
By Calvin (31 reviews) from Edinburgh , 15 Jul 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
As an Antonioni fan (The Passenger, L'Avventura), I have really tried to like this film - twice. But I have to give in to an expression of disappointment here.
The performances by Vitti and Delon are fine, if a little contradictory - Vitti playing the ennui straight while Delon attempts to inject some energy and even humour to his role. And the film doesn't look too bad either (though it is hardly as striking as some of Antonioni's later work such as Il Deserto Rosso & Zabriskie Point), with the much celebrated closing few minutes of bleak architectural tracing being a definite highlight of the film.
The problem, for me, is the film's emptiness. Of course, this is a film about such 'emptiness', and reviewer's can tie themselves into self-reflexive knots with this... But the points of comparison used by Antonioni are too facile. Of course these lives appear dull when contrasted with Kenya, flying through clouds, etc.
Ultimately, the lifelessness on show here seems less a reflection of contemporary society than a sign of a filmmaker (temporarily) out of inspiration.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(29)Watchable Early Delon
By Jono79con (15 reviews) , 31 Dec 2012Watchable offering if you're a fan of Delon or European cinema in general. Delon is charismatic in the role, the other actors are slightly wooden.- Was this review helpful to you?
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far from a total eclipse
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 01 Dec 2012Lots of slow passages when covering the personal life and then shoots into hyper mode when goes into the stock exchange and dealing with the economy. Not sure it really hangs together by having these two extremes and whether we should have any sympathy for the Vitti character who seems to self absorbed to care about anything outside herself. Delon is cool as always.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Simply boring
By Hortensja (3 reviews) , 30 Nov 2012Too slow to my liking. Or rather simply boring, although I may be wrong, as only managed to watch 1 hour.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Don't waste your time
By Jazzmanstu (5 reviews) , 24 Jun 2012This film is like a book with blank pages. A directory should be able to tell a story; the director of this film must be feeble minded, there will be school children all over the world who given the chance could make a better fil than this.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Rather pretentious...
By a customer from OXON , 08 Nov 2011in the kind of way only the French can be... Loved spotting the classic cars, but the film was bordering on tedious as it was somewhat slow and over indulgent.- Was this review helpful to you?
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