Description:
Link......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/

Year.............: 1961
Country..........: Italy / France
Audio............: DD 2.0
Subtitles........: English, none
Video Format.....: 1.66:1
DVD Source.......: DVD-9
DVD Format.......: PAL
DVD distributor..: http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-notte/


Menus..........: [x] Untouched, intact.

Video..........: [x] Untouched, intact.

DVD-extras.....: [x] Untouched, intact.

DVD-Audio......: [x] Untouched, intact.


• New restoration of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio 
  with previously censored sequences restored for the first time. 
  Anamorphically encoded.

• New and improved English subtitles.

• Original Italian theatrical trailer.

One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet 
another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, 
Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified his reputation as one 
of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni’s 
“Twilight of the Gods”, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined 
from a crane-shot, it’s a sprawling study of Italy’s upper middle-class; 
seen in close-up, it’s an x-ray of modern man’s psychic desolation.

Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple 
living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and 
Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author 
and “public intellectual”; she is “the wife”. Over the course of one 
day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come 
to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question 
of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built 
out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria.

Photographed in rapturous black-and-white by the great Gianni 
di Venanzo (8 1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti), La notte presents 
the beauty of seduction, then asks: “When did this occur — 
this seduction of Beauty?” The Masters of Cinema Series is 
proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni’s haunted odyssey 
in a new digital restoration, uncut for the first time 
ever on home video.


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