Italian actress (1931–2022)
She became the face of existential drift in Antonioni's 1960s films — those long silences, that blonde reserve, the way she made alienation look like thought itself.
Maria Luisa Ceciarelli was born on 3 November 1931 and took the name Monica Vitti when she entered Italian cinema. Her run with Michelangelo Antonioni through the 1960s turned her into something rarer than a star: a cinematic idea, appearing opposite Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde in films that reset what screen acting could hold. She collected five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes, a Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion. When she died on 2 February 2022, Italy's culture…
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