Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

NEW 35MM PRINT!
Red Desert
By Michelangelo Antonioni
Thu & Sat, Jan 19 & 21  •  7:30pm  /  Sun, Jan 22  •  2pm
$8 Regular/ $6 YBCA member, senior, student, teacher

Antonioni's panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most essential. This look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age — about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris — continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another, it creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. (1964, 117 min, 35mm)