Monica Vitti

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Monica Viti, seated at far left holding a glass, with two women in a dimly lit room in a scene from the film Eclipse directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Monica Vitti

Italian actress

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Michelangelo Antonioni
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…the career of the actress Monica Vitti, whose exquisite, mysterious presence provided the warming touch of human interest that assured L’avventura, despite its puzzling narrative structure and obscurity of motive, its breakthrough to a large international audience. Some mediation of this sort is necessary in Antonioni’s films since without it…
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…the career of the actress Monica Vitti, whose exquisite, mysterious presence provided the warming touch of human interest that assured L’avventura, despite its puzzling narrative structure and obscurity of motive, its breakthrough to a large international audience. Some mediation of this sort is necessary in Antonioni’s films since without it…
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