La Notte

La Notte (The Night) (1961)

La Notte first published by Film4 Summary: In Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte (The Night), a married couple’s crisis reflects the anxieties of modernism in an age of death and oblivion. Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita) stars.   Review: “Whenever I try to communicate, love disappears.”  So confides young Valentina (Monica Vitti) to middle-aged Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni)…

Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe (1973)

La Grande Bouffe first published by VODzilla.co Written in 1785, but not published until 1904, the Marquis de Sade’s notorious novel The 120 Days of Sodom became an instant cause célèbre for its sometimes moralising, sometimes glorifying depiction of four well-to-do middle-aged gentlemen enacting a four-month orgy of lust, perversion and murder upon an ensemble…