A ★★★★★ review of L'Eclisse (1962)

That chemistry between Alain Delon and Monica Vitti in L'Eclisse... they don't make them like that anymore. The films and the stars; or how (daring) cinema can warm your home and cinematic heart. "Antonioni’s first films were documentaries, and it’s worth noting that he employed mainly real stockbrokers in the stock exchange sequences of L’eclisse, getting Delon to model his gestures on those of one of them. Part of what makes these scenes so breathtaking is his compositional style in using the edges of the frame and playing off different sections of the crowded image in relation to one another—much