The final sequence of Antonioni's La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a necessity and took on the semblance of a spiritual act. It's a unique sequence in which physical closeness has great significance. The characters have exhausted their feelings for each other but are still very close to each other. As a friend of mine said once, more than five years with my husband is like incest. These characters have no exit from their closeness. We see them desperately trying to save each other, as if they were dying. (Andrei Tarkovsky)
One of the finest pictures ever made I think. And this scene is simply an icon in the history of film. It could not have been better directed, photographed (with that dawn mist) or acted. And that symbolism of sitting in the sand trap while reading the letter fits Antonioni so well. "Who wrote that?" "You did." Exquisite.
he doesn't remember his own words, all love is lost, everything's gone, except passion and affect, friends of the lie that help human beings in living their meaningless and unconscious life like a dream within a dream
I could not explain it to in a million years but her wandering trip.... the courtyard with burnt cinders and broken clock, the boys savagely fighting, the rocket club by the highway and lots of other little details are something I've watched over and over and everything seems somehow mysteriously right.
sono affascinato della scelta e della composizione delle immagini filmate che mi appaiono quasi come dipinti, almeno dissegni (animati) ... qualsiasi posizione di un oggetto oppure di una persona in queste immagini non sembra casuale, ma riflettuta per produrre un messaggio dell'insieme ... cinematografia come pittura come altra disciplina d'arte, innanzitutto su un piano estetico ...
@@theorz8698 Her lips look like she is speaking italian indeed. But she is definitely dubbed, which actually makes this scene painful to watch for anyone familiar with her real voice.
@@jweiss5106 it was common practice in Italian cinema to use foreign actors and then dubbed them. Even the Italian ones were often dubbed, mostly because directors preferred interesting faces over good delivery. Some actors like Mastroianni himself were dubbed in their first movies and later used their real voices when they gained notoriety, but they still re-recorded every line in post production, because it wasn't common to record audio on set. This kind of method gave directors like Fellini the freedom to improvise a scene on set and then later come up with good dialogue for it. Now, in this scene is very probable that Jeanne Moreau spoke Italian, but is also absolutely probable that she had a really heavy accent, which wouldn't fit the character, as she's from Milan. In Italy is not strange to watch dubbed movies, and when directors used foreign actors it was mostly because of the expressiveness and not the voice.
This is the second in a Michelangelo Antonioni trilogy: "L'avventura," then "La notte" followed by "Le'Eclisse" to understand whole trilogy. French legend Alain Delon is superb in Le 'Eclisse."
Stanley Kubrick lo mise nella lista dei suoi film preferiti, non serve aggiungere altro, questo era il cinema italiano, un cinema che ha fatto scuola in tutto il mondo.
Hai ragione: questo è l'esistenzialismo che ha animato il '68. Puro nichilismo esistenziale propinato alle masse dalla cinematografia colta ed annoiata per la loro rovina
@@paolo-px9gm E strano, perche dopo guerra moltissimi erano animati con una gran 'joie de vivre', ma nel arte era l'opposto. Gente storta e malformata.
The marvellous end of Tarkovsky's Mirror is a little similar, though this lifts to the open, Mirror retreats deeper into the woods. La Notte is also a little Mizoguchian, e.g Sansho, Ugetsu
cinema surcoté et dont on voit quelques décennies après l'incroyable vide de vie et de vérité ! ON est loin des génies que sont Stan Brackhage ou Artavazd Pelechian !!! Jeanne Moreau sur-joue et ne me convainc pas du tout ! elle aussi actrice surcoté par une bande de critiques de cinéma, en grande partie des pseudo-intellectuels au service d'un cinéma franchouillard incapable d'aborder les très grands !!! Les critiques parisianistes de Saint Germain-des-Près et des salles minables de Maubert-Mutualité !!!! Jeanne Moreau .. quelle catastrophe !!
I wonder if Welles said that with tongue in cheek, which wouldn't be too far out of character. At any rate, both Welles and Antonioni were true visionary filmmakers. I greatly admire both men. La Notte is an amazing film. It's captivating, alluring, brilliantly shot and acted. It has a melancholy beauty to it. I find similiar flourishes in Welles', Touch of Evil. Very different films, different pacing and nuance, each in the style of their respective director. Classics, imho.
Jeanne Moreau est une si mauvaise actrice que depuis le début de cette scène finale rien d'elle n'est crédible et rien ne traduit la vraie vie ! et dire que cette femme a été adulée par des millions de personnes ! pas étonnant que le débile Hitler ait pu envouter des milions de nazis et d'une certaine façon "faire encore mieux" !! Mastroianni tant dans la gestuelle que dans l expression sort malgré tout son épingle du jeu ... sans etre non plus au niveau d'un Louis Jouvet ...
Vous y allez carrément vous ! Comparer Jeanne Moreau et Hitler ! Tout ça parceque JM vous horripile et vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi elle a été adorée par certains comme actrice (je n'en fais pas partie, quoique je l'aime beaucoup comme chanteuse), ce qui fut tant mieux pour elle. Relaxez-vous !
@@deguilhemcorinne418 vous n avez pas saisi le sens de mon commentaire et pour être poli car sachant que vous ne saississerez guère plus le sens de ce commentaire disons que je ne sais pas m exprimer. Là vous serez contente et fière de vous et on en terminera là !
@@achdjianfinearts votre commentaire précédent sur une JM surcôtée et un genre de cinéma qui vous paraît vide de sens me semblait plus pertinent, et je respecte votre opinion personnelle là dessus. Disons que ici votre comparaison m'a paru hasardeuse et injuste, même si on est d'accord que les gens peuvent se laisser embobiner par des dictateurs.
@@deguilhemcorinne418 toute propagande et le cinéma a 99 % est de la propagande ! Des grands films qui n en sont pas comme ceux de Germaine Dulac n ont été vus que de très peu et pire je suis quasiment certain a 99 % que vous n en connaissez pas les acteurs. Car Germaine Dulac était libre, artiste elle. Alors je n ai rien de spécial contre Jeanne Moreau c est juste un produit marketing pour bobos avant l heure. Du faussement intellectuel !!! Et c est une des raisons de la déchéance intellectuelle des français dans le dernier quart du 20 eme siècle ! Et je maintiens mon parallèle entre la fabrique du consentement dans la propagande Nazie et celle du consentement dans le marketing du cinéma commercial ! Relire les écrits de Edward Bernays.
The final sequence of Antonioni's La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a necessity and took on the semblance
of a spiritual act. It's a unique
sequence in which physical closeness has great significance. The characters
have exhausted their feelings for each other but are still very close to each other. As a friend of mine said once, more than five years with my husband
is like incest. These characters have no exit from their closeness. We see them
desperately trying to save each other, as if they were dying. (Andrei
Tarkovsky)
One of the finest pictures ever made I think. And this scene is simply an icon in the history of film. It could not have been better directed, photographed (with that dawn mist) or acted. And that symbolism of sitting in the sand trap while reading the letter fits Antonioni so well. "Who wrote that?" "You did." Exquisite.
he doesn't remember his own words, all love is lost, everything's gone, except passion and affect, friends of the lie that help human beings in living their meaningless and unconscious life like a dream within a dream
È un capolavoro,ogni frase è come leggere un libro, Antonioni è stato un grande.
Masterpiece. Jeanne Moreau is incredible in this film.
I could not explain it to in a million years but her wandering trip.... the courtyard with burnt cinders and broken clock, the boys savagely fighting, the rocket club by the highway and lots of other little details are something I've watched over and over and everything seems somehow mysteriously right.
That letter is profound.
Love the letter
sono affascinato della scelta e della composizione delle immagini filmate che mi appaiono quasi come dipinti, almeno dissegni (animati) ... qualsiasi posizione di un oggetto oppure di una persona in queste immagini non sembra casuale, ma riflettuta per produrre un messaggio dell'insieme ...
cinematografia come pittura
come altra disciplina d'arte, innanzitutto su un piano estetico ...
Jean Moreau speaking perfect Italian. Good acting. Moody cinematography. Melancholy jazz. I like gazing upon their sad, lovely faces.
She was dubbed i think.
@@theorz8698 Her lips look like she is speaking italian indeed. But she is definitely dubbed, which actually makes this scene painful to watch for anyone familiar with her real voice.
@@theorz8698 you mean she was dubbed in this scene only? I don't understand. Please don't tell me whole film is her dubbed :(
@@jweiss5106 it was common practice in Italian cinema to use foreign actors and then dubbed them. Even the Italian ones were often dubbed, mostly because directors preferred interesting faces over good delivery. Some actors like Mastroianni himself were dubbed in their first movies and later used their real voices when they gained notoriety, but they still re-recorded every line in post production, because it wasn't common to record audio on set. This kind of method gave directors like Fellini the freedom to improvise a scene on set and then later come up with good dialogue for it. Now, in this scene is very probable that Jeanne Moreau spoke Italian, but is also absolutely probable that she had a really heavy accent, which wouldn't fit the character, as she's from Milan. In Italy is not strange to watch dubbed movies, and when directors used foreign actors it was mostly because of the
expressiveness and not the voice.
@@jweiss5106 She's dubbed in the entire film unfortunately. Her regular voice is a lot more softer and higher-pitched and it sounds a lot better
This is the second in a Michelangelo Antonioni trilogy: "L'avventura," then "La notte" followed by "Le'Eclisse" to understand whole trilogy. French legend Alain Delon is superb in Le 'Eclisse."
R.I.P. Monica Vitti
Stanley Kubrick lo mise nella lista dei suoi film preferiti, non serve aggiungere altro, questo era il cinema italiano, un cinema che ha fatto scuola in tutto il mondo.
Kubrick made The Clockwork Orange (1971), ten years after this movie was made.
Ingmar Bergman said La Notte and Blow Up were the two masterpieces of Antoniani.
@Randy White yeah, he said he was inconsistant
@Randy White He was wrong.
Who tf cares? He dismissed the rest of his work and doesn’t have any relevancy to this
They still loved each other in the end. No matter what she said.
I just bought the DVD I wanted to watch the whole thing
meraviglioso regista
Absolutely marvellous
This is it... for discriminating, civil, appreciators of intellectual romance, we're at the right place.
OMG I loved Jett Rink.
Semplicemente stupendo 😍
MASTERPIECE 🥺
Fantastic!
Soundtrack : Giorgio Gaslini band. We have a good tradition with Jazz combos.
I believe the filmmaker of “The Clockwork Orange” (1971), Stanley Kubrick, put “La Notte” (1961) as one of the films he really admired.
creo que esta escena nunca se irá de mi mente
Per chi ama il Cinema 📽 come me
Any idea which golf course this final scene was played on?
Spoiled, listless, self-absorbed, solipsistic, corrupt people. People like that ruin everything and everyone around them.
Hai ragione: questo è l'esistenzialismo che ha animato il '68.
Puro nichilismo esistenziale propinato alle masse dalla cinematografia colta ed annoiata per la loro rovina
@@paolo-px9gm E strano, perche dopo guerra moltissimi erano animati con una gran 'joie de vivre', ma nel arte era l'opposto. Gente storta e malformata.
capolavoro
Acting class
I rewatch the final scene - i I am thoroughly convinced that they are deeply in love with one another.
They are not
The marvellous end of Tarkovsky's Mirror is a little similar, though this lifts to the open, Mirror retreats deeper into the woods. La Notte is also a little Mizoguchian, e.g Sansho, Ugetsu
Mirror is a different thing and is not similar at all.
obvioius. some pieces of blow up is coming from here Jeffrey Dean
cinema surcoté et dont on voit quelques décennies après l'incroyable vide de vie et de vérité ! ON est loin des génies que sont Stan Brackhage ou Artavazd Pelechian !!! Jeanne Moreau sur-joue et ne me convainc pas du tout ! elle aussi actrice surcoté par une bande de critiques de cinéma, en grande partie des pseudo-intellectuels au service d'un cinéma franchouillard incapable d'aborder les très grands !!! Les critiques parisianistes de Saint Germain-des-Près et des salles minables de Maubert-Mutualité !!!! Jeanne Moreau .. quelle catastrophe !!
ジャンヌモローが素晴らし。マルチェロは、ちょっと若すぎて、軽い。
Orson Welles is right. Antonioni is a master of boredom lol
Welles was wrong, Orson was not God, no one is. This is cinema with another pace, difficult to catch in the super fast post modern rhythm
@@andy46197 👏🏻
I wonder if Welles said that with tongue in cheek, which wouldn't be too far out of character. At any rate, both Welles and Antonioni were true visionary filmmakers. I greatly admire both men. La Notte is an amazing film. It's captivating, alluring, brilliantly shot and acted. It has a melancholy beauty to it. I find similiar flourishes in Welles', Touch of Evil. Very different films, different pacing and nuance, each in the style of their respective director. Classics, imho.
Welles criticizing Antonioni is like a mcdonalds hamburger criticizing one of the finest gourmet plates one can find.
He also said Hitchcock's films will be forgotten in 100 years. Sounds like a hater.
Jeanne Moreau est une si mauvaise actrice que depuis le début de cette scène finale rien d'elle n'est crédible et rien ne traduit la vraie vie ! et dire que cette femme a été adulée par des millions de personnes ! pas étonnant que le débile Hitler ait pu envouter des milions de nazis et d'une certaine façon "faire encore mieux" !! Mastroianni tant dans la gestuelle que dans l expression sort malgré tout son épingle du jeu ... sans etre non plus au niveau d'un Louis Jouvet ...
Vous êtes un pitoyable censeur. Pas étonnant que vous ayez une obsession pour Hitler.
Vous y allez carrément vous ! Comparer Jeanne Moreau et Hitler ! Tout ça parceque JM vous horripile et vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi elle a été adorée par certains comme actrice (je n'en fais pas partie, quoique je l'aime beaucoup comme chanteuse), ce qui fut tant mieux pour elle. Relaxez-vous !
@@deguilhemcorinne418 vous n avez pas saisi le sens de mon commentaire et pour être poli car sachant que vous ne saississerez guère plus le sens de ce commentaire disons que je ne sais pas m exprimer. Là vous serez contente et fière de vous et on en terminera là !
@@achdjianfinearts votre commentaire précédent sur une JM surcôtée et un genre de cinéma qui vous paraît vide de sens me semblait plus pertinent, et je respecte votre opinion personnelle là dessus. Disons que ici votre comparaison m'a paru hasardeuse et injuste, même si on est d'accord que les gens peuvent se laisser embobiner par des dictateurs.
@@deguilhemcorinne418 toute propagande et le cinéma a 99 % est de la propagande ! Des grands films qui n en sont pas comme ceux de Germaine Dulac n ont été vus que de très peu et pire je suis quasiment certain a 99 % que vous n en connaissez pas les acteurs. Car Germaine Dulac était libre, artiste elle. Alors je n ai rien de spécial contre Jeanne Moreau c est juste un produit marketing pour bobos avant l heure. Du faussement intellectuel !!! Et c est une des raisons de la déchéance intellectuelle des français dans le dernier quart du 20 eme siècle ! Et je maintiens mon parallèle entre la fabrique du consentement dans la propagande Nazie et celle du consentement dans le marketing du cinéma commercial ! Relire les écrits de Edward Bernays.
Antonioni films are too long. I agree with what Vitti says in this film:"You two wore me out."