Final Scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's 'La Notte'

Featuring Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni.

RIP Jeanne Moreau 1928-2017

From the film "La Notte" 1961 dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, ©Janus Films and Criterion Collection.

[claramae_]

The final sequence of Antonioni's La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a necessity and took on the semblance
of a spiritual act. It's a unique
sequence in which physical closeness has great significance. The characters
have exhausted their feelings for each other but are still very close to each other. As a friend of mine said once, more than five years with my husband
is like incest. These characters have no exit from their closeness. We see them
desperately trying to save each other, as if they were dying. (Andrei
Tarkovsky)

[garrison]

One of the finest pictures ever made I think. And this scene is simply an icon in the history of film. It could not have been better directed, photographed (with that dawn mist) or acted. And that symbolism of sitting in the sand trap while reading the letter fits Antonioni so well. "Who wrote that?" "You did." Exquisite.

[frankcavallo]

he doesn't remember his own words, all love is lost, everything's gone, except passion and affect, friends of the lie that help human beings in living their meaningless and unconscious life like a dream within a dream

[pawdaw]

Masterpiece. Jeanne Moreau is incredible in this film.

[ulisseyamamoto]

È un capolavoro, ogni frase è come leggere un libro, Antonioni è stato un grande.

[Lupolino]

sono affascinato della scelta e della composizione delle immagini filmate che mi appaiono quasi come dipinti, almeno dissegni (animati) ... qualsiasi posizione di un oggetto oppure di una persona in queste immagini non sembra casuale, ma riflettuta per produrre un messaggio dell'insieme ...
cinematografia come pittura
come altra disciplina d'arte, innanzitutto su un piano estetico ...

[iadorenewyork]

Jean Moreau speaking perfect Italian. Good acting. Moody cinematography. Melancholy jazz. I like gazing upon their sad, lovely faces.

[kathrynj.hernandez]

This is the second in a Michelangelo Antonioni trilogy: "L'avventura, " then "La notte" followed by "Le'Eclisse" to understand whole trilogy. French legend Alain Delon is superb in Le 'Eclisse."

[Sbaunz]

Stanley Kubrick lo mise nella lista dei suoi film preferiti, non serve aggiungere altro, questo era il cinema italiano, un cinema che ha fatto scuola in tutto il mondo.

[poetcomic]

Ingmar Bergman said La Notte and Blow Up were the two masterpieces of Antoniani.

[garywilloughby]

I just bought the DVD I wanted to watch the whole thing

[carlbatty]

Any idea which golf course this final scene was played on?

[Kay-wird]

creo que esta escena nunca se irá de mi mente

[jettrink]

This is it... for discriminating, civil, appreciators of intellectual romance, we're at the right place.

[petervitti]

They still loved each other in the end. No matter what she said.

[paolounreal]

Soundtrack : Giorgio Gaslini band. We have a good tradition with Jazz combos.

[dashoverton]

I believe the filmmaker of “The Clockwork Orange” (1971), Stanley Kubrick, put “La Notte” (1961) as one of the films he really admired.

[mizofan]

The marvellous end of Tarkovsky's Mirror is a little similar, though this lifts to the open, Mirror retreats deeper into the woods. La Notte is also a little Mizoguchian, e.g Sansho, Ugetsu

[petervitti]

I rewatch the final scene - i I am thoroughly convinced that they are deeply in love with one another.

[StudSupreme]

Spoiled, listless, self-absorbed, solipsistic, corrupt people. People like that ruin everything and everyone around them.