Movie

Red Desert

1964 · 117 min

A slow, haunting plunge into a woman's disorientation amid industrial landscapes, demanding patience but rewarding with visceral unease.

Tagline: This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…
Overview: In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, tense and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, identity, madness, environment
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
madness
environment
love
Places: big city
workplace
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild