Red Desert

About Red Desert

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Red Desert (1964) is a drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Its themes are adultery, italy, depression, and loneliness.

Monica Vitti appears as Giuliana, Richard Harris as Corrado Zeller, Carlo Chionetti as Ugo, and Xenia Valderi as Linda. Released in September 1964, it runs 117 minutes.

The screenplay is by Michelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Boogie Nights, Images, and The Promised Land make useful companions to Red Desert, all filed under husband wife relationship and mother son relationship. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 520 votes and it carries a NR rating.