Red Desert

Red Desert
  • Release date: 8 Feb 1965
  • Release year: 1964
  • Runtime: 117 minutes
  • Country: Italy, France
  • Keywords: factory, ship, color in title, extramarital affair, depression, existentialism, loneliness, young woman, psychic, fog
Plot:
Against the grim backdrop of Ravenna's barren industrial wastelands brimming with flame-belching factories and deleterious chemical fumes, Giuliana, a deeply dejected young mother on the brink of a total existential breakdown, seeks solace with one of her neglectful husband's handsome associates, Corrado Zeller. Alienated after that horrible car accident and utterly disarmed by him, Giuliana embarks on a hasty, shallow affair hoping to overcome the insurmountable obstacles of her profound, yet quiet, mental anguish; however, her spiritual catharsis still seems so far away. In the end, is isolation Giuliana's only refuge?
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