Red Desert

Red Desert is a 1964 Italian-language drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. It won the Golden Lion at the 25th Venice Film Festival. Another from my Max watchlist.

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The British Film Institute calls it Antonioni's "mid-career masterpiece". The New Yorker calls it the director's "most mysterious and awe-inspiring work." Slant Magazine says, "Red Desert is a distillation of Antonioni’s preferred themes and imagery: alienation, anxiety, modern life, and industrialized landscapes." Senses of Cinema concludes its consideration with this: "With each new viewing of an Antonioni film, new complexities and connections are revealed. If we learn one thing from watching his work, it is that alienation — possibly even more present now than it was then — is a multifaceted state of being." The Guardian gives it a full 5 stars and describes it as a "fascinating experimental movie about the malaise of industrial society". 97% of Rotten Tomatoes critics give it a positive review.