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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 12A

Cast Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti

Directors Michelangelo Antonioni

Screenwriters Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra

Running Time 117 minutes

Red Desert
Antonioni's 1964 modern-life-is-rubbish treatise

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Plot
Giuliana (Vitti) is the unhappy wife of Ugo (Chionetti) and suffers from an unnamed form of depression. Her erratic emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but no-one engages directly with the problem. When British engineer Corrado Zeller (Harris) arrives, he seems to understand what Giuliana is really after in life, and he begins an affair with the troubled woman.

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