Cinematheque: Italian Masterworks at the Chazen Museum of Art

In Antonioni’s first color film an alienated wife and mother (the director’s muse Vitti) contemplates an affair with her husband’s colleague (Harris) while navigating an industrial wasteland brought on by the technological age. Perhaps Antonioni’s most stylish effort, Red Desert is suffused with devastatingly beautiful imagery and an almost overwhelming sense of disaffection. (Italy, 1964, 118 min., subtitled. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni; with Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir)