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Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert
ITALY · 1964

Il Deserto rosso (Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni
mental illness infidelity industrial alienation post-traumatic stress urban isolation
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Synopsis

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.

Cinema Atlas Connection
The look of the film was really inspired by Antonioni's Red Desert, which I watched a lot.
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