

This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Monica VittiGiuliana
- Richard HarrisCorrado Zeller
- Carlo ChionettiUgo
- Xenia ValderiLinda
- Rita RenoirEmilia
- Lili RheimsTelescope Operator's Wife
- Aldo GrottiMax
- Valerio BartoleschiValerio
- Emanuela Pala CarboniGirl in Fable
- Giuliano MissiriniRadio Telescope Operator
Crew
- Michelangelo AntonioniDirector
- Tonino GuerraScreenplay
- Michelangelo AntonioniScreenplay
- Carlo Di PalmaDirector of Photography
- Giovanni FuscoOriginal Music Composer
- Eraldo Da RomaEditor
- Tonino CerviProducer
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 201975% alikeBook · Both grave, contemplative, prestige.
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