A Berwyn restaurant is set to expand into Oak Park this summer, opening a second location on North Marion Street. Giovanni Matteo Mancini, owner and executive chef of La Notte Café, said he plans to ...
The signs are there from the outset. As Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte begins, novelist Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife, Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), are visiting their friend in the ...
Ennui and eroticism make an oddly alluring combo in Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte. The 1961 film, newly restored in 4K, opens with the disenchanted, well-to-do married pair Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) ...
The first time we see La Notte’s two protagonists—a long-married couple, Giovanni and Lidia Pontano—they’re so distant from the camera as to seem insignificant. Even those who know that the movie ...
Can a film about apathy still qualify as a success if it draws a yawn from many of its viewers? Such is the interesting predicament faced by La Notte, Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 Berlin Golden Bear ...
Michelangelo Antonioni was a cinematic cubist. Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui.
Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni look tense in La Notte. The oppressive imagery of glass and concrete tells La Notte’s story of an alienated married couple better than the deliberately muted ...