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  Subject:   Spring Italian Film Series: "Red Desert" (Il deserto rosso)

  Sponsor:   Department of French and Italian

  Date:   Wednesday, May 3, 2000

  Time:   7pm - 9pm

  Location:   Herrin Hall (Bio-T 175) [look for it in a campus map]

  Event URL:   http://www.stanford.edu/dept/italianlanguage

  Costs:   Free Admission

  Contact:   dawn green: dawn.green@stanford.edu

The sixth film of the series (Program change):

"Red Desert" (Il Deserto Rosso)
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

Starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris
Italian with English subtitles.

"Il Deserto Rosso was Antonioi's first colour film, preceding the better-known
 Blow Up by a couple of years. As in most of Antonioni's films the story itself
 is quite slight- a young woman in industrial Ravenna who has had a nervous
 breakdown and has attempted suicide embarks tentatively on an affair- but what
 is absolutely astounding is Antonioni's use of the industrial landscape (and
 especially its colours) to evoke his central character's inner state.

This is Antonioni at his most painterly, and it is also one of the great films
 on the modern city. The film received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film
 Festival in 1965. Antonioni was presented with and Honorary Award for Lifetime
 Achievement at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1995."

 Event history: Submitted by dkgreen on 27-Apr-2000;

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