Monica Vitti – a life in pictures
Italian screen legend Monica Vitti has died at the age of 90. We look back over her career
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Monica Vitti in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, 1960
Photograph: Herbert Dorfman/Corbis/Getty Images
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La Notte, 1960 – Vitti’s second film with Antonioni
Photograph: Nepi/Sotiledip/Silver/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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Opposite Alain Delon in L’Eclisse, 1962, her third Antonioni film
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Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert) from 1964 – Vitti and Antonioni’s fifth collaboration
Photograph: Duemila/Federiz/Francoriz/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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Dirk Bogarde and Monica Vitti in Joseph Losey’s Modesty Blaise, 1966
Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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La Ragazza Con La Pistola (The Girl With the Pistol) with Carlo Giuffre, 1968
Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy
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Dramma della Gelosia (The Pizza Triangle) with Giancarlo Giannini, 1970
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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Le Fantome de la Liberte (The Phantom of Liberty) with Jean-Claude Brialy
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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A Mezzanotte Va la Ronda del Piacere, 1975, with Giancarlo Giannini. Directed By Marcello Fondato
Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Vides Cinematografica/Allstar
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With Keith Carradine in An Almost Perfect Affair (1979), directed by Michael Ritchie
Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
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Il Mistero di Oberwald, 1980, Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Photograph: Rai/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
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Antonioni and Vitti in 1982 at the Cannes film festival
Photograph: Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images
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At home in Rome in 1985
Photograph: AGF/Rex/Shutterstock
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With husband Roberto Russo in 1993
Photograph: Camilla Morandi/AGF/Rex/Shutterstock
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Vitti poses with the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 1995
Photograph: EPA
