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...stock exchange, in the temple of commercial civilization, she meets a handsome young broker (Alain Delon) with a mind like a ledger and a ticker for a heart, a man to whom all values are convertible in gold. He changes women the way he changes ties, and one day she happens to match his socks. "When I'm with you," she muses after the fact, "I feel as if I'm in a foreign country. But perhaps there's no need to know each other in order to love. Perhaps there's no need to love...
...Avventura and La Notte. As in those films, he employs the method of tedium to explain the nature of tedium, but he employs it so skillfully now that boredom is seldom boring. Vitti, as always, is endlessly fascinating, a luminous mannequin clothed with Antonioni's projections. And Delon is appropriately repulsive as a young man in a hurry. In the scenes at the stock exchange, Antonioni finds his brokers, as Auden found them, "roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse," and he simply throws his camera to the wolves. In one scene they yap and snap...
French Actor Alain Delon has helped too. He was her co-star in a 1961 Paris production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. They have been man and mistress for four years. She calls him "my engaged husband." Fond of the conjugal we, she likes to say "we have 3,000 records," or "we both love dogs," or "we are getting married after Christmas, probably in the country, or in the snow." Delon preserves snowy silence...
Behind her, sometimes as far as one reel back, a man (Marcello Mastroianni? Alain Delon? Eiji Okada?) appears. He is doing The Walk. His hands are sometimes in his pockets; sometimes one hand is in one pocket (curiously, two hands are never in one pocket, nor is one hand ever in two pockets). He may or may not be following the woman-it is almost impossible to tell because he, like she, seems in no hurry. The director (Michelangelo Antonioni? Alain Resnais? Federico Fellini? Francois Truffaut?) is definitely in no hurry. The movie (La Notte? L'Av-ventura...
...Alain Delon, who established his reputation as Rocco in Rocco and His Brothers, turns in an impressive performance as the debonair murderer lusting for "le meilleur." The entire design to murder Phillipe develops unspoken in his eyes, where greed and hatred of a tormentor become obviously irresistible...