
Alongside L'Avventura and La Notte L'Eclisse completes director Michelangelo Antonioni's ambitious 60s trilogy on doomed relationships in a fractured world.The tale involves a woman Vittoria (Monica Vitti The Red Desert) who has just suffered the break-up of an imperfect relationship with a staunch intellectual (Francisco Rabal). Piero (Alain Delon Le Samouraie The Leopard) a brash young stockbroker casts his romantic gaze in Vittoria's direction and Vittoria's resolve gradually relents precipitating a tentative affair. Yet their innermost feats play upon them in ways that go against an honest expression of their love - and against a lasting relationship.
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