Watch: Il deserto rosso 1964 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a bleak rundown industrial area, young Giuliana tries to cope with life. She’s married to Ugo, the manager of a local plant, but is having an affair with one of his co-workers, Corrado Zeller, who is visiting. Giuliana is unstable, not quite knowing anymore whether her role is wife, mother, or just another person in the world. Her escape from life is short-lived: Zeller is just using her to satisfy his own needs and desires..
Plot: Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo. Ugo’s old pal, Corrado, shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana’s anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana’s existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.
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Is there a point to all this? I seriously doubt it.
“Red Desert” is the sort of film that sophisticated folks might say they enjoy though the common person wonders why the film what made in the first place. Although my taste often runs to foreign language films, I find myself siding with the average viewer–wondering if there is any point to this film. And, as I sit here and write my review, I wonder why Antonioni would make a film that would have little, if any, interest to most viewers–though this can be said about several of his other films (such as his inexplicable “Zabriskie Point”).The film is set in a toxic wasteland of a town. There is a huge factory there and almost everything is grey and dead. The water is a cesspool, a boat arriving at the port has some sort of plague and yellow smoke is belched by the smoke stacks. It is truly an awful place. Giuliani (Monica Vitti) lives there with her son and husband and the camera follows her throughout the movie. She is bored and mentally ill and spends pretty much the whole film complaining about her life, staring into space and questioning her existence. There really isn’t a whole lot more to the film than that, though Corrado (Richard Harris) pops in and out of the movie and sticks around long enough to have sex with screwy Giuliana.
Overall, this is a dark, depressing and seemingly pointless film. Perhaps it is supposed to be some statement about life itself and interpersonal alienation, though frankly, I think this is ridiculous. Life is good and sweet–and seeing an awful film like this seems like a waste of time.
Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Actors Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
Country Italy, France
Awards 7 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package (Digital Cinema Package DCP 4k) (restored version), 35 mm