La Notte (DVD, 2008) - Picture 1 of 1
La Notte (DVD, 2008) - Picture 1 of 1
La Notte (DVD, 2008)
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Awesome. Great classic movie.
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The impact of La Notte in 1961 must have been startling, since the characters seem trapped in their emotions without being able to alter their lives. The main couple,played by jeanne moreau and marcello mastroianni, have lost their orginal feeling for each other but go on being a couple.The whole film is permeated with their sense of deadlocked emotion. They are unable to confront what has happened to them, and it is only when they attend the party of a rich financier and learn the news of a death of a close friend that their situation becomes impossible to avoid. One of the key scenes of sixties cinema is jeanne moreau wandering around a city by herself encountering possibly symbolic events. Her directionless search seems to embody her lost sensibility. She watches a street gang fight and then in dismay cries out at one youth beating another, only for the fight to stop and then be pursued by the winner of the fight who sees her as a possible sexual conquest. One can't help feeling the director is showing modern reality, or how the old moral certanties just do not apply anymore. The booklet with restored DVD has revealing and thought-provoking interviews with the director and critical responses to film. It is hard to watch the film though and not be affected by the drifting emotional malaise of the main couple. The booklet questions one's original responses to the film and sees that their are several different interpretations possible, but on an intial viewing it is hard not to feel as trapped as the two central charcters!Their all pervasive mood becomes somewhat suffocating and although the final party scenes unties their emotionally static involvement its difficult to believe their is any hope for their situation. Moreau just pities her husband rather than loves him and although Mastroianni does not seem to love her he tries to erotcise their relationship back into futile romance, or is it futile? But they seem only to be able to perpetuate their dead marriage. The restored copy is superbly clear and sharp.Read full review
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