Michelangelo Antonioni directs Monica Vitti, Richard Harris and Carlo Chionetti in this Italian arthouse drama where a rich housewife is losing her sanity.

The fruit is ashen grey. The streets are deserted. The countryside littered with factories, plants and technological protrusions. The workers are on strike, the 1%ers rip away the walls from their shacks in futile destructive decadence, disease comes with global exploitation. Sounds familiar. Whatever prescient idea or ideas Antonioni was trying to say in 1964 now comes across as blunt and unsophisticated. Vitti looks stunning but who want to appreciate her beauty in such interminable bleakness. An apocalypse of pretentious boredom.

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Perfect Double Bill: L’Eclisse (1962)

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