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3	Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; November 3, 1931 – February 2, 2022) was an Italian actress.
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5	In the early 1960s she became a companion and a muse for Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni. She played main characters in ''Film/LAvventura'' (1960), ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]'' (1962) and ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' (1964). Also Vitti played an important secondary character in ''[[Film/{{Lanotte}} La notte]]'' (1961). Consequently she became an icon of the cinematic alienation.
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7	After 1964 she stopped appearing in Antonioni's films and reached a huge mainstream success as a comedy star featuring in numerous films and winning one of the highest amounts of various prizes among Italian actresses. She also worked for Creator/LuisBunuel in ''Film/LeFantomeDeLaLiberte''. However her attempt to reach out to the international mainstream audience with ''Film/ModestyBlaise'' had mixed success. She and Antonioni reunited for the TV production ''Il mistero di Oberwald''.
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9	She passed away at age 90 on February 2, 2022.
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11	!! Filmography
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13	* ''Film/LAvventura (The Adventure, 1960)'', this film became a BreakthroughHit for her.
14	* ''[[Film/{{Lanotte}} La notte]]'' (The Night, 1961)
15	* ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]'' (''The Eclipse'', 1962)
16	* ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' (''Red Desert'', 1964)
17	* ''Film/ModestyBlaise'' (1966)
18	* ''Film/TheGirlWithThePistol'' (1968)
19	* ''Film/LeFantomeDeLaLiberte'' (1974)
20	* ''Film/BlondeInBlackLeather'' (1975)
21	* ''Il mistero di Oberwald'' (1981)
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23	!! Tropes associated with her works:
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25	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Monica Vitti played a blonde in ''L'avventura'', a brunette in ''La notte'', a blonde once more in ''L'eclisse'' and finally a redhead in ''Il deserto rosso''. While similar changes of hair color or a wig are nothing unusual, she performed those transformations within an implied film series by one director.
26	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Often her characters are mild versions of this.
27	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: That's how her 1960-64 films should look from the perspective of the Italian mainstream viewers who mostly enjoyed her roles in her commedie all'italiana.
28	* [[invoked]]LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Vitti, who became acclaimed as the star of the existentialist cinema of alienation after 1964, turned to comedy (commedia all'italiana) because she was unsatisfied with being only known by Antonioni's tetralogy. She was trained as a comedy actress and in her formative years was actually very keen on comedy. Moreover, she used comedic means also in some of her films with Antonioni. Less so with ''Il deserto rosso'', much more with ''L'eclisse''.
29	* TheMuse: To Michelangelo Antonioni in 1957-67.
30	* OlderThanTheyLook: In 1981's ''Il mistero di Oberwald'', she doesn't look her 50.
31	* ReunionShow: Her film ''Il mistero di Oberwald'' can be considered as such because she and Antonioni reunited to work on that film 17 years after their last work together. Further justified as it was made for TV.
32	* TheSixties: The decade when she became a star of arthouse cinema. She went on being famous in the '70s too.
33	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: She always played the inherently idealistic characters who try desperately not to succumb to the cynicism of the world around them.
34	* StageNames: She was born Maria Louisa Ceciarelli.
35	* {{Typecasting}}: What she was afraid of, so she quit playing alienated women in the films of Antonioni.

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