Phoenix Classics: Red Desert

Part of Phoenix's summer classic season. A government agent embarks on a mission to track an outlaw who has stolen gold bullion. The pursuit leads them into a barren desert region, where the agent must rely on his survival skills to continue the chase. Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.PT1H57M12A2025-07-13

Monica Vitti

Richard Harris

Carlo Chionetti

Xenia Valderi

Rita Renoir

Lili Rheims

Aldo Grotti

Valerio Bartoleschi

Emanuela Paola Carboni

Bruno Borghi

Beppe Conti

Julio Cotignoli

Giovanni Lolli

Hiram Mino Madonia

Giuliano Missirini

Arturo Parmiani

Carla Ravasi

Ivo Scherpiani

Bruno Scipioni

Michelangelo Antonioni

Phoenix Classics: Red Desert"Phoenix Classics: Red Desert"

Phoenix Classics: Red Desert

Showtimes

July 13, 2:00 pm