Summer with Monica Vitti
June 11–August 13, 2026
Thanks to recent restorations from Cinecittà, this series offers the opportunity to experience a selection of Monica Vitti’s best work on the big screen, from her iconic performances in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni to her exuberant comedies with Carlo Di Palma, Mario Monicelli, Luciano Salce, and Alberto Sordi.
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Michelangelo Antonioni: L’eclisse, 1962
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Carlo Di Palma: Teresa the Thief, 1973
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Luciano Salce: I Married You for Fun, 1967
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Alberto Sordi: I Know That You Know That I Know, 1982
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Michelangelo Antonioni: Red Desert, 1964
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L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19604K Digital Restoration
Thursday, June 11, 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti is on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19614K Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 13, 7 PMView DetailsA novelist (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife (Jeanne Moreau) play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture. With Monica Vitti as the aloof, alluring daughter of a millionaire industrialist.
L’eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1962Thursday, June 18, 7 PMView Details“[Michelangelo] Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19644K Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 21, 6:30 PMView DetailsMichelangelo Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
I Married You for Fun
Luciano Salce
Italy, 1967New 4K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 1, 7 PMView DetailsReplete with rapid-fire dialogue and classic screwball timing, I Married You for Fun explores the challenges of an unconventional matchup between straitlaced lawyer Pietro, and romantic bohemian Guiliana (Monica Vitti) amid the social pressures of the 1960s.
The Girl with a Pistol
Mario Monicelli
Italy, United Kingdom, 1968New 4K Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 5, 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti shines in this proto-feminist comedy about the transformation of a traditional Sicilian woman traveling through the United Kingdom to avenge her honor. The film satirizes provincial Italian mores while also exploring Italy’s relationship to 1960s cosmopolitanism.
Help Me, My Love
Alberto Sordi
Italy, 1969Thursday, July 16, 7 PMView DetailsDirected with an eye for the comic gesture and the absurd moment, Alberto Sordi’s first film with Monica Vitti is a bittersweet domestic comedy that sets about debunking the stereotypes of the faithless husband/long-suffering wife.
Teresa the Thief
Carlo Di Palma
Italy, 19734K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 22, 7 PMView DetailsCinematographer Carlo Di Palma’s directorial debut features Monica Vitti as the eponymous war widow and single mother struggling to survive in postwar Italy. “A fascinating cross between melodrama and comic picaresque” (Film at Lincoln Center).
I Know That You Know That I Know
Alberto Sordi
Italy, 1982New 4K Digital Restoration
Saturday, July 25, 6:30 PMView DetailsThe lives of a complacent banker, Fabio (Alberto Sordi), and his wife of many years, Livia (Monica Vitti), are turned upside down when they learn a detective hired to investigate a neighbor was accidentally trailing Livia.
L’avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19604K Digital Restoration
Thursday, July 30, 7 PMView DetailsMonica Vitti is on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19614K Digital Restoration
Sunday, August 2, 7 PMView DetailsA novelist (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife (Jeanne Moreau) play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture. With Monica Vitti as the aloof, alluring daughter of a millionaire industrialist.
L’eclisse
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 1962Saturday, August 8, 7 PMView Details“[Michelangelo] Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
Red Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, France, 19644K Digital Restoration
Thursday, August 13, 7 PMView DetailsMichelangelo Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).