In 1961 La Notte received the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the David di Donatello Award for Best Director.
La Notte is considered the central film of a trilogy concerning with the alienation of man in the modern world –the so-called trilogy of incommunicability, which begins with L'Avventura (1960) and ends with L'Eclisse (1962).
In this film, Antonionis’style –composed of long shots, deep-focus shot, dead time and prolonged descriptive pauses, but also of close-ups and frames with contrasting areas–, becomes unmistakably.
As Umberto Eco affirmed, “his cinema has managed (…) to get grips, using adequate instruments, with our reality, and to offer us imaginative instruments for making us conscious of it.”