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DVD

Red desert = Il deserto rosso

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Widescreen version.

Languages

Italian dialogue (mono) with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Valerio Bartoleschi, Rita Renoir.

Publication Information

[United States] : Criterion Collection ; Janus Films, c2010.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.

Notes

DVD release of the 1964 motion picture.

Booklet (39 p.) cotains an essay by film writer Mark Le Fanu, a reprinted interview with Antonioni conducted by Jean-Luc Godard, and writings by Antonioni on Gente del Po and N.U.

Special features include audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs, archival interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti, two short documentaries by Antonioni (Gente del Po and N.U.), dailies from the original production, theatrical trailer.

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