Le désert rouge

Original title: Il deserto rosso

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

18K

YOUR RATING

Three Reasons Criterion Trailer for Red Desert

Play trailer1:24

1 Video

99+ Photos

Drama

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

18K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations total

Videos1

Trailer 1:24

Red Desert: The Criterion Collection

Photos140

+ 134

‘Snow White’ Stars Test Their Wits

Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and director Marc Webb take our Ultimate Disney Quiz.

Watch now

9:57

More like this

7.9

7.7

7.7

6.7

7.4

7.6

7.2

Des oiseaux, petits et gros

7.4

6.9

7.7

7.3

7.2

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
David Hemmings claims in his autobiography that Richard Harris was kicked off the film after he punched Antonioni, and that the scenes that were still to be completed were done with another actor who was photographed from behind. Hemmings was apparently told this when Harris warned him about Antonioni when Hemmings was working on Blow-Up (1966).

Quotes
Giuliana: There's something terrible about reality and i don't know what it is. No one will tell me.

Alternate versions
A restored version has been released in 1999, edited by Vincenzo Verzini.

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)

User reviews66

Featured review

10/10

Colour, light, vision, motion

Thirty-five years later, this film is amazing for many reasons, mostly perhaps for Antonioni's daring, bold, unique and amazing sense of colour. Great performances all around, great camera work, soundtrack - it's perfect. The theme is one that Antonioni has explored since his very first film: emotional, physical and historical alienation. Those who know the work of the artist Giorgio Morandi will find many similarities in the colour schemes and how Antonioni frames each shot. A rewarding, astonishing and visionary film in every sense.