This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'avventura. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who confront their alienation from each other and the empty bourgeois circles in which they travel. Antonioni's muse Monica Vitti smolders as an industrialist's tempting daughter.
