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** The opening scene of the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'', whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
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** The opening scene of the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was is a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'', whose adaptation of ''Literature/TheFountainhead'', in which the finale was is a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
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Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''Film/LEclisse''.
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Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''Film/LEclisse''.
''Film/{{Leclisse}}''.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Giovanni Pantano is a taker while his wife Lidia a giver.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Lidia is Veronica and Valentina is Betty. The former is sulky and disaffected the latter energetic and enthousiastic. Both are brunettes though.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Lidia is Veronica and Valentina is Betty. The former is sulky and disaffected the latter energetic and enthousiastic.enthusiastic. Both are brunettes though.
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* DeadSparks: TheMovie. Culminating in the last scene where Lidia says "I don't love you anymore." She barely reacts when seeing her husband kiss Valeria.
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* DeadSparks: TheMovie. Culminating in the last scene where Lidia says "I don't love you anymore." She barely reacts when seeing her husband kiss Valeria.Valentina.
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* DownerBeginning: It starts with a character wallowing in pain. It is a fairly important secondary character, not one of the main.
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* DownerBeginning: It The film starts with a character wallowing Giovanni and Lidia's friend Tommaso writhing in pain. It is agony in a fairly important secondary character, not one of the main.hospital bed, terminally ill from cancer.
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* DutchAngle: Di Venanzo often shoots Jeanne Moreau this way both from height and from below.
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* DutchAngle: Di Venanzo often shoots Jeanne Moreau this way both from height and from below.below to show Lidia's growing sense of malaise with her marriage to Giovanni.
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* ExtremeLibido: An obviously insane girl placed in a room on the same floor as Giovanni's dying friend. She attaracts Giovanni into her room. He reacts ambivalently never taking any intiative but obeying her.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni including every other entry in the alienation trilogy or tetralogy. [[spoiler: The same trope is reinforced with Blowup]]
* FanserviceExtra : The number of the black striptease dancer makes her that.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Valeria Gherardini the millionaire's offspring.
* GoodMorningCrono: Subverted as Garrani is first shown as if he wakes in his bed however it is a hospital bed and he is attended by a nurse and [[spoiler: dying from an unnamed disease.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni including every other entry in the alienation trilogy or tetralogy. [[spoiler: The same trope is reinforced with Blowup]]
* FanserviceExtra : The number of the black striptease dancer makes her that.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Valeria Gherardini the millionaire's offspring.
* GoodMorningCrono: Subverted as Garrani is first shown as if he wakes in his bed however it is a hospital bed and he is attended by a nurse and [[spoiler: dying from an unnamed disease.]]
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* ExtremeLibido: An obviously insane girl placed in a room on the same floor as Giovanni's dying friend. She attaracts Giovanni into her room. He reacts ambivalently ambivalently, never taking any intiative but obeying her.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni includingevery the other entry in the alienation trilogy or tetralogy. [[spoiler: "alienation" films (''Film/LAvventura'', ''Film/{{Leclisse}}'', ''Film/RedDesert''). The same trope is reinforced with Blowup]]
''Blowup''.
*FanserviceExtra : FanserviceExtra: The number of the black striptease dancer makes her that.
whom Giovanni and Lidia watch in a nightclub serves little narrative purpose besides being attractive and scantily dressed.
* TheGeneralsDaughter:Valeria Gherardini Valentina Gherardini, the millionaire's offspring.
daughter.
* GoodMorningCrono:Subverted Subverted, as Garrani is first shown as if he wakes in his bed however bed. However, it is a hospital bed and he is attended by a nurse and [[spoiler: dying from an unnamed disease.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni including
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* GoodMorningCrono:
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Valeria is the one, or at least she acts like one to Giovanni.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl in the hospital.
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film, their future is suspended.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl in the hospital.
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film, their future is suspended.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Valeria is the one, or at least she Valentina acts like one to Giovanni.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl inGiovanni, seemingly trying to shake him out of the hospital.
state of ennui into which he has fallen in his professional and personal lives, but after spending the evening flirting with him, she admits she doesn't want to break up his marriage.
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film,their future is suspended.but they haven't done anything to close the growing distance between themselves.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl in
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film,
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* OnlyOneName: Interestingly subverted as opposed to the flanking films. Several characters have both a name and a surname. Not only the Pantano couple do but also Valeria Gherardini and the dying friend of Pantano played by Bernhard Wicky who is named Tommaso Garani.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, at times is clearly that.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, at times is clearly that.
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* OnlyOneName: Interestingly subverted as opposed to the flanking films. Several characters have both a name and a surname. Not only the Pantano couple do but also Valeria Gherardini surname, including protagonists Giovanni and Lidia Pantano, millionaire's daughter Valentina Gherardini, and the dying Pantanos' terminally ill friend of Pantano played by Bernhard Wicky who is named Tommaso Garani.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, attimes is clearly that.times.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, at
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Gherardini, the father of Valeria who always behaves decently and speaks politely to Giovanni whom he wants to hire for his own service.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Gherardini, the father of Valeria Valentina who always behaves decently and speaks politely to Giovanni whom he wants to hire for his own service.
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** One of the books Giovanni finds lying around the house is Herrmann Broch's ''The Sleepwalkers'' which is also about the ennui among the rich aristocratic bourgeosie.
** The opening scene, the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'' whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
** The opening scene, the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'' whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
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** One of the books Giovanni finds lying around the house is Herrmann Broch's ''The Sleepwalkers'' Sleepwalkers'', which is also about the ennui among the rich aristocratic bourgeosie.
** The openingscene, scene of the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'' ''Film/TheFountainhead'', whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
** The opening
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* TheStoic: Lidia is that, always underreacting when Giovanni is ignoring her emotional needs.
* {{Tritagonist}}: the third character played by Monica Vitti appears only 55 minutes into the film previously nearly exclusively dedicated to the relationshop of two main characters. Since then she receives a fair share of attention until her exit. Still the final minutes are dealing with two main characters again.
* {{Tritagonist}}: the third character played by Monica Vitti appears only 55 minutes into the film previously nearly exclusively dedicated to the relationshop of two main characters. Since then she receives a fair share of attention until her exit. Still the final minutes are dealing with two main characters again.
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* TheStoic: Lidia is that, always underreacting when Giovanni is ignoring her emotional needs.
* {{Tritagonist}}:the The third character played by Monica Vitti appears only 55 minutes into the film previously nearly exclusively dedicated to the relationshop of two main characters. Since then she She receives a fair share of attention until her exit. Still exit, after which the final minutes are dealing deal with two main characters again.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.striptease.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.striptease.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.
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* BathtubScene: Emphasizes the DeadSparks in the relationship, as Giovanni shows no interest in the sight of his stunning naked wife getting out of the bathtub.
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* BathtubScene: Emphasizes the DeadSparks in the relationship, as Giovanni shows no interest in the sight of his stunning naked wife [[SexySurfacingShot getting out of the bathtub.bathtub]].
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Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''.
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Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''.
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''La notte'' is a 1961 film by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni.
It features Creator/MarcelloMastroianni as Giovanni Pantano, a famous writer, and Creator/JeanneMoreau as his wife Lidia. It is a portrait of a failing marriage and people who have grown apart from each other, seen over a single day as the Pantanos go out and about, visiting a terminally ill friend, going to a fancy party. While the inattentive Giovanni enjoys his high-society lifestyle and looks for a younger woman to have an affair with, the much more sensitive Lidia is undergoing an emotional crisis.
Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''.
''La notte'' was shot by the cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo. The film received a Golden Bear in Berlin Film Festival in 1961.
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!! Tropes
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Giovanni Pantano is a taker while his wife Lidia a giver.
* BathtubScene: Emphasizes the DeadSparks in the relationship, as Giovanni shows no interest in the sight of his stunning naked wife getting out of the bathtub.
* BettyAndVeronica: Lidia is Veronica and Valentina is Betty. The former is sulky and disaffected the latter energetic and enthousiastic. Both are brunettes though.
* BigFancyHouse: That of the party host, Mr. Gherardini.
* TheCameo: Famous author Creator/UmbertoEco shows up as a guest at the party.
* CatsAreSuperior: Invoked by two party goers who see a cat contemplating a statue.
* DeadSparks: TheMovie. Culminating in the last scene where Lidia says "I don't love you anymore." She barely reacts when seeing her husband kiss Valeria.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: The disease of which Tommaso is dying is never named, although it's obviously cancer.
* DownerBeginning: It starts with a character wallowing in pain. It is a fairly important secondary character, not one of the main.
* DullSurprise: That's how Lidia reacts to a fairly violent public fight between two youngsters.
* DutchAngle: Di Venanzo often shoots Jeanne Moreau this way both from height and from below.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We learn a lot about Giovanni when a mentally ill young woman lures him into her room and starts trying to have sex with him--and he goes along with it, and is on top of her on the bed when the nurses come in. All the while Giovanni's wife Lidia is waiting outside the building.
* ExtremeLibido: An obviously insane girl placed in a room on the same floor as Giovanni's dying friend. She attaracts Giovanni into her room. He reacts ambivalently never taking any intiative but obeying her.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni including every other entry in the alienation trilogy or tetralogy. [[spoiler: The same trope is reinforced with Blowup]]
* FanserviceExtra : The number of the black striptease dancer makes her that.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Valeria Gherardini the millionaire's offspring.
* GoodMorningCrono: Subverted as Garrani is first shown as if he wakes in his bed however it is a hospital bed and he is attended by a nurse and [[spoiler: dying from an unnamed disease.]]
* LoveLetter: Written by Giovanni Pontano to Lydia in the days of their love. Now he has forgotten that it was authored by him.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Valeria is the one, or at least she acts like one to Giovanni.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl in the hospital.
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film, their future is suspended.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Giovanni is an acclaimed author.
* TheOner: The first shot of the film is a panoramic view of Milan shown from the descending elevator.
* OnlyOneName: Interestingly subverted as opposed to the flanking films. Several characters have both a name and a surname. Not only the Pantano couple do but also Valeria Gherardini and the dying friend of Pantano played by Bernhard Wicky who is named Tommaso Garani.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, at times is clearly that.
* PoolScene: At the party at night in the rain.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Gherardini, the father of Valeria who always behaves decently and speaks politely to Giovanni whom he wants to hire for his own service.
* RuleOfPool. After the people at Gherardini's fancy party get caught out in the rain, they all go diving in the pool in their fancy party clothes.
* ShoutOut:
** One of the books Giovanni finds lying around the house is Herrmann Broch's ''The Sleepwalkers'' which is also about the ennui among the rich aristocratic bourgeosie.
** The opening scene, the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'' whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Everyone is cynical here.
** Lidia's cynicism is of rather desperate brand but she still is cynical.
** Monica Vitti too playes a cynical variation of the ManicPixieDreamGirl. Her character is as cynical as a young millionaire's daughter can be.
* {{Socialite}}: A whole party of them actually.
* TheStoic: Lidia is that, always underreacting when Giovanni is ignoring her emotional needs.
* {{Tritagonist}}: the third character played by Monica Vitti appears only 55 minutes into the film previously nearly exclusively dedicated to the relationshop of two main characters. Since then she receives a fair share of attention until her exit. Still the final minutes are dealing with two main characters again.
* UntranslatedTitle: It is usually referred to as ''La Notte'' in English.
* VisualInnuendo: As Lydia walks home, she encounters groups of two men each: one engaged in a bloody brawl, and another setting off rockets. In both cases, the men are watched by other men, and they're also visually symbolic of the sex Lydia isn't getting (or giving).
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.
''La notte'' is a 1961 film by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni.
It features Creator/MarcelloMastroianni as Giovanni Pantano, a famous writer, and Creator/JeanneMoreau as his wife Lidia. It is a portrait of a failing marriage and people who have grown apart from each other, seen over a single day as the Pantanos go out and about, visiting a terminally ill friend, going to a fancy party. While the inattentive Giovanni enjoys his high-society lifestyle and looks for a younger woman to have an affair with, the much more sensitive Lidia is undergoing an emotional crisis.
Creator/MonicaVitti stars as Valeria Gherardini, the daughter of Giovanni's potential boss. Giovanni and Lidia's friend, the one dying of cancer, is played by Bernhard Wicki, who also directed ''Film/{{The Bridge|1959}}''. The film is set in UsefulNotes/{{Milan}}. ''La Notte'' is the second installment in the trilogy of alienation succeeding to ''Film/LAvventura'' and preceeding ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]''.
''La notte'' was shot by the cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo. The film received a Golden Bear in Berlin Film Festival in 1961.
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!! Tropes
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Giovanni Pantano is a taker while his wife Lidia a giver.
* BathtubScene: Emphasizes the DeadSparks in the relationship, as Giovanni shows no interest in the sight of his stunning naked wife getting out of the bathtub.
* BettyAndVeronica: Lidia is Veronica and Valentina is Betty. The former is sulky and disaffected the latter energetic and enthousiastic. Both are brunettes though.
* BigFancyHouse: That of the party host, Mr. Gherardini.
* TheCameo: Famous author Creator/UmbertoEco shows up as a guest at the party.
* CatsAreSuperior: Invoked by two party goers who see a cat contemplating a statue.
* DeadSparks: TheMovie. Culminating in the last scene where Lidia says "I don't love you anymore." She barely reacts when seeing her husband kiss Valeria.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: The disease of which Tommaso is dying is never named, although it's obviously cancer.
* DownerBeginning: It starts with a character wallowing in pain. It is a fairly important secondary character, not one of the main.
* DullSurprise: That's how Lidia reacts to a fairly violent public fight between two youngsters.
* DutchAngle: Di Venanzo often shoots Jeanne Moreau this way both from height and from below.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We learn a lot about Giovanni when a mentally ill young woman lures him into her room and starts trying to have sex with him--and he goes along with it, and is on top of her on the bed when the nurses come in. All the while Giovanni's wife Lidia is waiting outside the building.
* ExtremeLibido: An obviously insane girl placed in a room on the same floor as Giovanni's dying friend. She attaracts Giovanni into her room. He reacts ambivalently never taking any intiative but obeying her.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: It spans over less than 24 hours unlike all other Italian films by Antonioni including every other entry in the alienation trilogy or tetralogy. [[spoiler: The same trope is reinforced with Blowup]]
* FanserviceExtra : The number of the black striptease dancer makes her that.
* TheGeneralsDaughter: Valeria Gherardini the millionaire's offspring.
* GoodMorningCrono: Subverted as Garrani is first shown as if he wakes in his bed however it is a hospital bed and he is attended by a nurse and [[spoiler: dying from an unnamed disease.]]
* LoveLetter: Written by Giovanni Pontano to Lydia in the days of their love. Now he has forgotten that it was authored by him.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Valeria is the one, or at least she acts like one to Giovanni.
** Also a nymphomaniac girl in the hospital.
* MaybeEverAfter: Giovanni and Lidia don't separate by the end of the film, their future is suspended.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Giovanni is an acclaimed author.
* TheOner: The first shot of the film is a panoramic view of Milan shown from the descending elevator.
* OnlyOneName: Interestingly subverted as opposed to the flanking films. Several characters have both a name and a surname. Not only the Pantano couple do but also Valeria Gherardini and the dying friend of Pantano played by Bernhard Wicky who is named Tommaso Garani.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Communication between the spouses, Lidia and Giovanni, at times is clearly that.
* PoolScene: At the party at night in the rain.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Gherardini, the father of Valeria who always behaves decently and speaks politely to Giovanni whom he wants to hire for his own service.
* RuleOfPool. After the people at Gherardini's fancy party get caught out in the rain, they all go diving in the pool in their fancy party clothes.
* ShoutOut:
** One of the books Giovanni finds lying around the house is Herrmann Broch's ''The Sleepwalkers'' which is also about the ennui among the rich aristocratic bourgeosie.
** The opening scene, the camera tracking down Milan's Pirelli tower was a reference to the end of Creator/KingVidor's ''Film/TheFountainhead'' whose finale was a tracking shot of an elevator up to a tower.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Everyone is cynical here.
** Lidia's cynicism is of rather desperate brand but she still is cynical.
** Monica Vitti too playes a cynical variation of the ManicPixieDreamGirl. Her character is as cynical as a young millionaire's daughter can be.
* {{Socialite}}: A whole party of them actually.
* TheStoic: Lidia is that, always underreacting when Giovanni is ignoring her emotional needs.
* {{Tritagonist}}: the third character played by Monica Vitti appears only 55 minutes into the film previously nearly exclusively dedicated to the relationshop of two main characters. Since then she receives a fair share of attention until her exit. Still the final minutes are dealing with two main characters again.
* UntranslatedTitle: It is usually referred to as ''La Notte'' in English.
* VisualInnuendo: As Lydia walks home, she encounters groups of two men each: one engaged in a bloody brawl, and another setting off rockets. In both cases, the men are watched by other men, and they're also visually symbolic of the sex Lydia isn't getting (or giving).
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The stripper leaves on both bra and panties. Played with in that the stripper's performance looks more like an acrobatic dance than a striptease.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Implied in the case of Giovanni.
** Subverted in the case of Lydia who cannot cheat on her husband after she agrees to be driven away in a car by a man of clear intentions. In the decisive moment she cannot go through with it.
