Re: L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy.

Posted by Pepe Le Loco (A) on September 28, 2005 at 22:05:01

In Reply to: L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy. posted by tinear on September 27, 2005 at 15:04:07:

One could easily pursue a certain cynical tact completely over the falls and say that a film like L'Eclisse can only be made by a rutheless and implacable intellect shackeled to the sentimental hot heart of a school girl. You wont hear me do that though.

I will say that its got some of what makes BlowUp great, without much at all of what makes it so bad. I allude of course, of the dreaded mimes. Lordy. But there are proto-mimemic flashes in L'Eclisse, and here in the freshness of their earlier inspiration, they are great. Accidently caught in frame from time to time, odd characters pass in the background, without remark, or in the distance through a window. Most of them are understated and flow controlled in a natural organic whole. These minor enigmas of L'Eclisse are as light as clouds and yet for that delicate balance of accident and meaning, as heavy as car wrecks. In time its true that they will explode bloated into the shamelessly mannered utterly baroque dopiness of the Blowup mimes. Here however, they work!

And I agree, just as advertised, L'Eclisse is architecture, or rather it is the articulation of space. Which is of course to say the same thing. Watch the film and feel the existance of lives in the context of the spaces they inhabit, and feel the relationships between people in the context of the spaces the relationships themselves create. Like I could have suggested above, its both beautiful and grimm.

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Topic - L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy. - tinear 15:04:07 09/27/05 (7)

Re: L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy. - Pepe Le Loco 22:05:01 09/28/05 (5)

That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think - tinear 05:05:52 09/29/05 (2)

Re: That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think - Pepe Le Loco 10:23:13 09/29/05 (0)

Vitti created quite a few memorable roles, most of them not known here - Victor Khomenko 06:00:58 09/29/05 (0)

I'd rate "L'Eclipse" as Alain Delons greatest performance - grinagog 22:11:36 09/28/05 (1)

Without much argument, these two are easy to agree with. - Victor Khomenko 05:55:00 09/29/05 (0)

That is problem with classics - Victor Khomenko 10:52:37 09/28/05 (0)

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Re: L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy. - Pepe Le Loco 22:05:01 09/28/05 (5)

That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think - tinear 05:05:52 09/29/05 (2)

Re: That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think - Pepe Le Loco 10:23:13 09/29/05 (0)

Vitti created quite a few memorable roles, most of them not known here - Victor Khomenko 06:00:58 09/29/05 (0)

I'd rate "L'Eclipse" as Alain Delons greatest performance - grinagog 22:11:36 09/28/05 (1)

Without much argument, these two are easy to agree with. - Victor Khomenko 05:55:00 09/29/05 (0)

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