L'Eclisse

L'Eclisse
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichelangelo Antonioni
Written by
Produced byRobert and Raymond Hakim
Starring
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Music byGiovanni Fusco
Production
companies
  • Interopa Film
  • Cineriz
  • Paris Film Production
Distributed by
  • Cineriz (Italy)
  • CFDC (France)
Release dates
  • 12 April 1962 (1962-04-12) (Italy)
  • 25 August 1962 (1962-08-25) (France)
Running time
126 minutes
Countries
Languages
  • Italian
  • English
Box office₤305 million (Italy)

L'Eclisse (English: "The Eclipse") is a 1962 romantic drama film co-written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti, with Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, and Louis Seigner. Filmed on location in Rome and Verona, the story follows a young woman (Vitti) who pursues an affair with a confident young stockbroker (Delon). Antonioni attributed some of his inspiration for L'Eclisse to when he filmed a solar eclipse in Florence.[2] The film is considered the last part of a trilogy and is preceded by L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961).[3][4][5]

L'Eclisse won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.[6] Described by Martin Scorsese as the boldest film in the trilogy, it is one of the director's more acclaimed works. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[7]


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  1. ^ a b "L'Eclisse". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. ^ Chatman, Seymour; Duncan, Paul (2004). Michelangelo Antonioni: The Investigation. Taschen. p. 84. ISBN 9783822830895.
  3. ^ Gazetas, Aristides (2008). An introduction to world cinema. London: McFarland. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7864-3907-2.
  4. ^ Wakeman, John (1988). World Film Directors: 1945-1985. H. W. Wilson. p. 65. ISBN 9780824207632.
  5. ^ Cameron, Ian Alexander (1971). Antonioni. Praeger. p. 105.
  6. ^ "Festival de Cannes: L'Eclisse". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.