La Notte

Watched on 18th August 2026.

La Notte's characters are overflowing with ennui, to the point that it makes you feel the boredom that they're trying so hard to run away from. Alas. Jeanne Moreau is hauntingly beautiful with her fake blasé demeanor, the bags under her eyes, and the aimless wandering around Milan. No matter how much she tried to hold on she couldn't help letting go. Can you blame her? She portrayed boredom with excellence. Nothing brings her pleasure, nothing gets her excited, not even a late night rich people party can get her gears going because she's lost appetite. Doomed to happen. You try to stay interested and interesting but you eventually get used to your routine, and nothing brings joy anymore. Is it inevitable? I wonder. What La Notte shows is that eventually boredom and desire interlink, did they fall out of love or did he stop caring because of how used he got to their life together? To their love? To their intimacy? Does loneliness lead to boredom or does boredom lead to loneliness? What could save them at the end of the day, the yearning for what once was? Is that enough to fill the hollowness of solitude and ennui? I doubt it.