La Notte

1961 · Michelangelo Antonioni

Successful novelist Giovanni Pontano and his emotionally distant wife Lidia drift through a single day and night in Milan after visiting a dying friend in the hospital, moving from a chaotic book party to a wealthy industrialist's late-night gathering. Both quietly pursue and are pursued by others—Giovanni by a hospital patient and later a young woman at the party, Lidia by a former admirer—while their own marriage grows more hollow with each passing hour. Michelangelo Antonioni's drifting, plotless structure brings the couple's mutual alienation fully into view by dawn.

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Studio

Nepi Film, Sofitedip, Silver Film

Starring

Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Maria Pia Luzi, Rosy Mazzacurati, Monica Vitti