The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise, L'eclisse tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another. Using the spaces of Rome as a backdrop for the affair, Antonioni achieves the apex of his style in this return to his greatest theme: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise, L'eclisse tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover and drifts into a relationship with another. Using the spaces of Rome as a backdrop for the affair, Antonioni achieves the apex of his style in this return to his greatest theme: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.
