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<font size="2"><p>Video Review
<font size="4"><br>Red Desert</font>
<br>by Gary Morris</font>
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<p><font size="6" color="#0000FF"><b>R</b></font>ed Desert</i> occupies a curious place in Antonioni’s canon. Made in 1964 as a French-Italian coproduction, it’s wedged between the international success of <i>Blow Up </i>(1967) and the trilogy of <i>L’Avventura</i> (1960), <i>La Notte</i> (1961), and <i>L’Eclisee</i> (1962), which most observers consider the director’s greatest achievement. Like those latter films, it featured Monica Vitti as a modern woman confronted by a spiritually bereft world of shallow relationships, beautiful but meaningless landscapes, and existential angst.
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