Red Desert (Criterion Collection) (1964) On Blu-Ray

Actor:         Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir
Director:    Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre:       Foreign Video - Italian
Year:          1964
Studio:       IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Length:      117
Released:   June 22, 2010
Rating:        Unrated (Video)
Format:      Blu-Ray
Misc:           Color
Language:  Italian
Subtitles  :  English

DESCRIPTION:

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and RED DESERT, his first color film, remains one of his greatest. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age--about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti (L'avventura), wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband's coworker, played by Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)--continues to exert force over viewers. With one startling, painterly composition after another--of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, overwhelming docked ships--RED DESERT creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema's preeminent poet of the modern age.