La Notte

1961

Michelangelo Antonioni’s gorgeous 1961 film, La Notte, has few peers. It is a film about affectless, wandering, actionless characters, which overstuffs its sets, landscapes, and architectural backgrounds with all the profound meaning and plot that the human element eschews. (Perhaps Cléo from 5 to 7 is a cousin, PlayTime a wacky uncle.)

One academic disc…