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Information
- A.k.a.
- Red Desert
- Year
- 1964
- Runtime
- 117 min.
- Director
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 8,350
- Checks
- 3,193
- Favs
- 384
- Dislikes
- 38
- Favs/checks
- 12.0% (1:8)
- Favs/dislikes
- 10:1
Top comments
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Michaelangelo Antonioni discussing the film - "It's too simplistic to say—as many people have done—that I am condemning the inhuman industrial world which oppresses the individuals and leads them to neurosis. My intention ... was to translate the poetry of the world, in which even factories can be beautiful. The line and curves of factories and their chimneys can be more beautiful than the outline of trees, which we are already too accustomed to seeing. It is a rich world, alive and serviceable ... The neurosis I sought to describe in Red Desert is above all a matter of adjusting. There are people who do adapt, and others who can't manage, perhaps because they are too tied to ways of life that are by now out-of-date." 8 months ago -
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This movie ranks #16 in Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion
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This movie ranks #45 in FilmTV's The Best Italian Films
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This movie ranks #66 in Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
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This movie ranks #72 in iCheckMovies's 1960s Top 100
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This movie ranks #107 in Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
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This movie ranks #169 in Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films
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This movie ranks #169 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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This movie ranks #234 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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This movie ranks #415 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #522 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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This movie ranks #623 in The Criterion Collection
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