L'Eclisse (1962) by Michelangelo Antonioni, Clip: Piero makes a phone call in his office...
The Image: Piero's left hand finger about to descend rather forcefully on the telephone keypad at the end of the clip - all rather 'manly' (https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/screenshot-2024-05-11-at-10.41.29.png?w=1024)
Alain Delon is playing an Italian stock-broker man in a then male-only profession - so obviously he will be giving his secretary instructions/reprimands - and be making phone calls... (to Vittoria in fact - arranging a date at the 'usual place' - one iteration of which down the line will become infamous at the end of film as a mutual no show)
(Of course, as like so many images in Antonioni - but especially this film - there are moments that look like an Edward Hopper painting, eg Piero at the beginning of this clip talking to his secretary looks a bit like the Hopper painting Office at Night: https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/screenshot-2024-05-11-at-10.37.01.png?w=903
(Especially when compared to Hopper' original sketch for the painting: https://aestheticoftheimage1.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/screenshot-2024-05-11-at-10.38.11.png?w=896)
Image book here: https://aestheticoftheimage1.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/leclisse-1962-by-michelangelo-antonioni-2/
[L'Eclisse [The Eclipse] (1962) by Michelangelo Antonioni]
(Michelangelo Antonioni looked like this: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0bc09386e06ed2ca0ca61aa3dc877db5983e65b4/0_139_2048_1229/master/2048.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none)
Cinematography by the great Gianni Di Venanzo, who looked like this: https://images.mubicdn.net/images/cast_member/41/cache-6272-1478101707/image-w856.jpg
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