ITALY · 1964

Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian Neorealism mental illness infidelity industrial alienation post-traumatic stress urban isolation
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In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Year1964
CountryItaly
DirectorMichelangelo Antonioni
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