L' Eclisse Blu-ray (Rental)

The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni's informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L'AVVENTURA and LA NOTTE), L'ECLISSE tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Peña - MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: THE EYE THAT CHANGED CINEMA (2001), a fifty-six-minute documentary exploring the director's life and career - ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE, a twenty-two-minute piece from 2005 about Antonioni and L'ECLISSE, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo - PLUS: Essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni's writing about his work