After a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, the ‘Queen of Italian Cinema,’ Monica Vitti, has died at the age of 90.
Vitti is best known for her work with Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni on his films L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), L’Eclisse (1962), and Red Desert (1964).
Despite being the touchstone of her legacy, L’Avventura, opened to a “chorus of boos” from the Cannes Film Festival audience, according to The New York Times. Vitti thought her career was over and left the theater in tears. “A cabal of filmmakers, led by Roberto Rossellini, wrote an impassioned defense of the film, and it went on to win the festival’s Special Jury Prize and to become widely hailed as a cinematic landmark.”
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