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Speakers): Tom Winterbottom

Winner of the 1961 Golden Bear at Berlin, La Notte follows the story of Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni), a successful writer, and his frustrated wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau). This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’avventura. Over the course of one night, the couple confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances make it an indelible illustration of romantic and social deterioration. At times full of emotion, and at others wholly unsentimental, La Notte shows Antonioni’s intuitive subtlety and his ability to portray complex human relationships.