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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The film's most spellbinding sequence depicts a pantheistic, utopian fantasy of innocence, which she recounts to her ailing son. Read more
TIME Magazine: Red Desert is at once the most beautiful, the most simple and the most daring film yet made by Italy's masterful Michelangelo Antonioni. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni's entire career; and correspondingly impossible to synopsise. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Swoon, ye 21st-century philistines, before the cataract of existential glamour that is Antonioni's Il deserto rosso, Read more