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Red Desert

Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964

Spine #522

Picked by 4 guests

Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra

Cinematography Carlo Di Palma

Edited by Eraldo Da Roma

Cast Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi

Picked by

Barbie Ferreira

“Red Desert, watched this at Metrograph. Hand acting, baby, hand acting. Inspo.”

Paul B. Preciado

“Another one that I want to take is Antonioni's Deserto Rosso. I saw the full retrospective of Antonioni when I was 20 and that completely changed my way of seeing things. Especially I have to say because Antonioni has this very kind of heterosexual binary way of looking at things, but when the question is how to look at a space, how to look at architecture, that is really amazing.”

Park Chan-wook

“Red Desert is one of my all-time favorites. And I can't leave this out. It's my favorite movie.”

Andre Gregory And Wallace Shawn

“There was a screening of Red Desert which is maybe my favorite of his films, a director's cut at MoMA, and somebody took us as a surprise. Antonioni is Cindy my wife's favorite filmmaker. I went and sat next to him and said this must be an amazing night for you and he said no I hate it tonight. I said why? He said there are 14 frames in the film that I can't stand and every time I see the film it breaks my heart but I can't do those over again.”