L'Eclisse (1962) on Netflix
Vittoria, a literary translator in Rome, leaves the writer Riccardo after a long night of talk. At the stock exchange where her mother spends her days, she meets Piero, a stockbroker.
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Plot summary
A long night of talk in his apartment in the EUR district ends with Vittoria, a literary translator in Rome, telling Riccardo, a writer, that their relationship is over. He asks her to stay, and she goes. That day she visits her mother at the Rome Stock Exchange, where her mother tracks her stocks all day. A stockbroker, Piero, buys on an inside tip, sells at a large profit and introduces himself to her: he manages her mother's account. Outside the building, Vittoria tries to tell her mother about the breakup, but her mother is absorbed in her gains. That evening her neighbor Anita stops by and the two women talk about the breakup, and another neighbor, Marta, invites them to her apartment. Riccardo calls up to her from the street that night, and she hides.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about L'Eclisse (1962)
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- Michelangelo Antonioni attributed some of his inspiration for L'Eclisse to when he filmed a solar eclipse in Florence.
- In 2008 L'Eclisse was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's "100 Italian films to be saved", a list of 100 films credited with changing the country's collective memory between 1942 and 1978.
