L'eclisse
To honor the legendary Alain Delon, we offer a look back at three solar films from his expansive career: Plein Soleil by René Clément, which cemented him as the new star of French cinema; L’eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni, confirming his status as an auteur's favorite with his understated, minimalist performance; and Soleil rouge by Terence Young, showcasing his widespread appeal and ventures into genre cinema.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize, 1963 Cannes Film Festival
After parting ways with her partner, Vittoria, a literature translator, begins a relationship with Piero, a stockbroker. But the young man's materialistic ways soon disturb their romance...
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He received numerous awards, including an Honorary Academy Award in 1995 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 1997 Venice Film Festival. Along with Robert Altman, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Jean-Luc Godard, he is one of the only directors to have won the top three prizes at the major European film festivals of Cannes, Berlin and Venice. A key figure in modern cinema since his debut in 1950 with Story of a Love Affair, a film that marked the end of neorealism and the beginning of a new era in Italian cinema, Antonioni wrote some of the most intense and profound pages of 1960s and 1970s cinema, particularly with his famous Trilogy on Modernity and Its Discontent, consisting of three black-and-white films: L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), and L'eclisse (1962), all starring his then-companion, Monica Vitti. With his formally innovative works that renew cinematic dramaturgy, he is considered the author of the first films to tackle modern themes of incommunicability, alienation, and existential malaise.
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Delon solaire
La Cinémathèque québécoise rend hommage à Alain Delon qui nous a quittés cette année. De sa riche filmographie, nous avons extrait trois films « solaires » qui témoignent de son charme incandescent et de sa stature internationale : un film français (Plein Soleil de René Clément, 1960), un film italien (L’eclisse de Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) et une coproduction franco-italo-espagnole tournée en anglais (Soleil rouge de Terence Young, 1971).
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