High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eclipse (Italian: L`eclisse) is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Filmed on location in Rome and Verona,Eclipse is about a young woman who breaks up with an older lover and then has an affair with a confident young stockbroker whose materialistic nature eventually undermines their relationship. The film is considered the last part of a trilogy which was preceded by L`Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961). In Martin Scorsese`s documentary My Voyage to Italy, the director called Eclipse the boldest film in Antonioni`s trilogy. Eclipse won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d`Or.