See this film: Red Desert at the MFA

A true test of cinephilia, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni try the viewer's patience with their long takes, enigmatic longueurs, and lingering studies of ennui. The reward is a rare beauty and spiritual elevation. Such is the case with Red Desert (1964), in which Monica Vitti plays a disturbed woman adrift in a toxic landscape of industrial waste and spiritual malaise, as hauntingly beautiful as it is laden with dread. It's a portrait of a world out of joint that is more timely now than ever, and it screens in a new 35 mm print at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave Boston | Thursday, March 1 @ 7:30 pm | 617.267.9300 or mfa.org/programs/film.