Louis Lorenzi-Prince

You can see everything in the boy's eyes.

Michelangelo Antonioni 'La Notte' is a film about architecture and how it affects life in our outer and inner worlds. It draws a connection between the rigid walls of building frames, doors, and windows, and the soft skeleton and skin of our bodies. All the buildings we see here are all new highrise buildings that were built after the war on the traditionally flat landscape of Milan. Marcello Mastroianni had a hard time deciding whether or not to do the movie because Antonioni kept telling his actors, don't react, don't show your emotions and Mastroianni said (Giovanni) it was a difficult role to play and Jeanne Moreau (Lidia) said it was the same for her. Both actors fulfilled the director's wishes very well. Monica Vitti as Valentina does a superb job as well.

I thought all the actors did a wonderful job and I enjoyed the movie. The handling of religious issues brought up in the film were overly simplistic and much too easy on the morals of the Catholic Church which are in themselves truly immoral, violent and man made.

Route 66 was an awesome show. Great acting, great characters, interesting stories, it had substance, you got into the characters in a way that's rare, now days. The locations are great because you get to see how places like the French Quarter looked back in 1960. A real eye opener.