1961: La notte (The Night)

Of the three films in the unofficial "Incomunicabiliy Trilogy", the others being L'avventura and L'eclisse, this one - chronicling a night an estranged couple spend in part together, in part apart - is my favourite because it is the tightest in terms of "stuff happening on the screen". Put differently, as I think I have made clear in the reviews linked to above, the films, brilliant in visual terms, suffer from being too deliberately paced and offering to little in terms of plot developments in my book, and this problem is relatively small in La notte. (7) Now, an Ernest Lehmann screenplay directed by Antonioni, that would have been something.