The sky was pale, and it was dawn. But for Ricardo (Francisco Rabal), it was a painful and cruel night. No matter how hard Ricardo begged Victoria (Monica Vitti) to change her mind, she had already made up her mind and insisted on leaving. Victoria came to the Roma Stock Exchange to find her mother, and saw her mother and broker Piero (Alain Delon) chatting excitedly about stocks from a distance. Piero was young, dashing, and personable, and he was a woman-pleaser, which was of no interest to Victoria. But an inexplicable powerful attraction slowly grew between the two, but neither of them took the first step. When she came to the exchange again, the stock plummeted and Victoria's mother lost a lot of money. A disturbed Victoria felt that Piero could be her reliable protector. However, when the two are finally together, the complex relationship behind them alienates them from each other.
"Eclipse", directed by Italian modernist film director Michelangelo Antonioni, together with "Night" and "Adventures" constitute Antonioni's "Modern Love Trilogy". Antonioni's works have always been concerned with the morbidity and alienation of the human mental state. Behind this film is still the humanistic moral crisis and spiritual emptiness that he wants to convey. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 15th Cannes Film Festival in 1962, and was shortlisted for the Palme d'Or at the 15th Cannes Film Festival in 1962.
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