La Notte by Michelangelo Antonioni

Screenplay by Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra With: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti Over the course of a single day, a novelist, paralyzed by his own material success, and his wife, even more acutely aware of her own despair, are forced to confront the death of their marriage, an emotional and spiritual anguish made both acutely painful and abstractedly detached through the unflinching performances of Moreau, Mastroianni, and Vitti, and through the uncompromising precision of Antonioni’s framing and cutting. In partnership with the Italian Embassy to Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut and the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, Metropolis Cinema presents a cycle dedicated to Monica Vitti, one of the most singular and captivating presences in Italian cinema, through four restored masterpieces directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.