History Film / IlDesertoRosso

%%ZCE * {{Adultery}}: Happens rather late in the film after a half-hearted but fairly long romance.

* TroubledProduction: Creator/RichardHarris was discontented with Antonioni's ideas. In the end they nearly got into a fight on the set. Harris had to quit and the remaining scenes were made with the double. Later he warned Creator/DavidHemming against accepting part in the film directed by Antonioni.

%%ZCE * CapitalismIsBad: A very discernible topic here.
** Corrado arrived to the city to hire people to work in Argentina and it is heavily implied that his promises about the wages and conditions there are false.
** Also the capitalism created technologies which torment Giuliana.
%%ZCE * DesertedIsland: In a tale related by Giuliana to a boy.
%%ZCE * DysfunctionalFamily: The family of Giuliana is very much this.

%%ZCE * NewTechnologyIsEvil: Here not a certain development in particular but all technology in general.

* Moodwhiplash: A scene illustrating a tale narrated by Giuliana to the son. The colors in this scene are bright and pure, it is sunlit. On the opposite, the rest of the film looks very dim and gloomy.

* OneWomanWail: Performed by an offscreen creature in the tale of deserted beach sequence. TheWordOfGod, in this case of Giuliana who told her son the tale answered his question "Who was singing?" with "Everybody was singing".

* SpoiledBrat: Arguably the boy of Giuliana who in one scene malingers complete leg failure. One might contend that he simply feels neglected, in the other scenes he doesn't behave in a rotten way.

* GreenAndMean: Subverted, Giuliana sports a green coat but it doesn't mean she's mentally troubled.

{{Film/Il deserto rosso}} (The Red Desert in English) is a 1964 film by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. It was awarded by the Golden Lion on the Venice film festival of the same year.

* {{Adultery}}: happens rather late in the film after a healf-hearted but a fairly long romance.
* AdultFear: the main topic of the film. Giuliana might be mentally unbalanced but first of all she is scared by the modern technological progress.

* BilingualBonus: a man in the penultimate scene actually speaks Turkish.
* {{Bookends}}: Ther first scene and epilogue are made in the same location near a plant.
* CapitalismIsBad: a very discernible topic here.
** Corrado arrived to the city to hire people to work in Argentine and it is heavily implied that his promises about the wages and conditions there are false.

* DesertedIsland: in a tale related by Giuliana to a boy.
* DysfunctionalFamily: the family of Giuliana is very much this.
* GreenAndMean: subverted, Giuliana sports a green coat but it not mean but mentally troubled.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Giuliana at a party drank the contents of several aphrodisiac eggs and ostensibly jokingly proclaimed that she became aroused. Later she confessed to Corrado that it was indeed the case.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: here not a certain development in particular but all technology in general.
* OneWomanWail: Performed by an offscreen creature in the tale of deserted beach sequence. TheWordOfGod, in this case of Giuliana who told her son the tale answered his question "Whi was singing" by "Everybody was singing".
* RedIsViolent: in this case for the psyche of the main character (Giuliana) who is further depressed by various technosphere objects painted red.

* TroubledProduction: Creator/RichardHarris was discontented with Antonioni's ideas. In the end they nearly broke into fight on the set. Harris had to quit and the remaining scenes were made with the double. Later he warned Creator/DavidHemming against accepting part in the film directed by Antonioni.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Giuliana at a party drank the contents of several aphrodisiac eggs and ostensibly jokingly proclaimed that she became horny. Later she confessed that it was indeed the case.

* OneWomanWail: Performed by an offscreen creature in the tale of deserted beach sequence.

The main character, Giuliana, is played by Monica Vitti. Also starring Richard Harris as Corrado Zeller.

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert in English) is a 1964 film by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. It was awarded by the Golden Lion on the Venice film festival of the same year.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Gialiana at a party drank the contents of several aphrodisiac eggs and ostensibly jokingly proclaimed that she became horny. Later she confessed that it was indeed the case.

* SpoiledBrat: Arguably the boy of Giuliana who in one scene malingers complete leg failure. One might contend that he simply feels neglected, in the other scenes he doesn't behave in a rotten way.

This film may be considered a fourth installment in the tetralogy of alienation by Antonioni alongside L'avventura, La notte and L'eclisse or even a fifth film if one includes Il Grido. However it is different in that it is Antonioni's first colour film and one of the most renowned for its inventive use of colour.

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert in English) is a 1964 film by creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. It was awarded by the Golden Lion on the Venice film festival of the same year.

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert in English) is a 1964 film by MichelangeloAntonioni. It was awarded by the Golden Lion on the Venice film festival of the same year.

* BilingualBonus: a man in the penultimate scene actually speaks Turkish.

* Adultery: happens rather late in the film after a healf-hearted but a fairly long romance.

* AdultFear: the main topic of the film. Giuliana might be mentally unbalanced by firsy of all she is scared by the modern technological progress.

* CapitalismIsBad: a very discernible topic here. Corrado arrived to

Il deserto rosso (The Red Desert in English) is a 1964 film by Michelangelo Antonioni. It was awarded by the Golden Loin on the Venice film festival of the same year.

* RedIsViolent: in this case for the psyche of the main character (Giuliana) who is further depressed by various technos[here objects painted red.

* MultilingualBonus: a man in the penultimate scene actually speaks Turkish.

* CapitalismIsEvil: a very discernible topic here. Corrado arrived to

!! tropes

* adultfear: the main topic of the film. Giuliana might be mentally unbalanced by firsy of all she is scared by the modern technological progress.
* capitalismisevil: a very discernible topic here. Corrado arrived to
* greenandmean: subverted, Giuliana sports a green coat but it not mean but mentally troubled.
* multilingualbonus: a man in the penultimate scene actually speaks Turkish.
* redisviolent: in this case for the psyche of the main character who is further depressed by various technos[here objects painted red.