L'eclisse

Cabaret Cinema

Friday January 8, 2010 @ 9:30 PM

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1962 (125 min)

Antonioni's fractured postmodern landscapes and deserted streets mirror the emotional invulnerability of his protagonists. Monica Vitti and Alain Delon play incidental lovers who mercilessly circle each other, afraid of feeling anything. Antonioni reaches the peek of his modernist style, returning to themes of alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.

Introduced by Percival Everett

Free with a $7 bar minimum

Percival Everett is the prolific author of satirical works such as A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.