Dominique Blanchar, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari
Considered by many to be his masterpiece, L’Avventura positioned Michelangelo Antonioni as an international talent. What appears to be a search for a missing person is actually an examination o...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 3, 2001
Stats: 506 reviews
often considered by critics to be one of the 5 or so greatest films in italian cinema history, l'avventura definitely has its strengths, the greatest of which are its striking images. the locations and cinematography are some of the best ever put on film despite the picture qual...( read more)
The title of Michelangelo Antonioni's film "L'avventura" (translated to "The Adventure") could not have been written without a grin. The film, alas, is far from an adventure. It focuses on a mystery with no resolution, a disappearance without a discovery, and characters with trai...( read more)
Yes, I know, I said I wouldn't watch this first installment of Antonioni's trilogy, but what the heck. If you've already seen two of the three, why not? I mean, this is his reputed masterpiece, right? The film that the audience at Cannes booed but that the judges at Cannes awa...( read more)
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Another Antonioni masterpiece. A visually beautiful tale of alienation and the shallow upper class society. It's a strange movie when first viewed, with a plot structure that lingers and seems to be about one thing and then jumps to somthing else. Its a great mov...( read more)
è una pépita ! davvero magnifico !
WHo am I kidding ? I don't speak italian, lol
i didn't like this movie for some reason, maybe i should watch it again.
And what is the brink of life anyway?So what if a close friend disappears as if the earth swallowed him(or her in our case)?The signs of the weather,of earth,of the future mean nothing,present is the intellectual stimulation we all must utilize to prove our existence.Needless to ...( read more)
Antonioni's most famous film may begin to run out of steam toward the end, but its opening half, set on a desolate Italian island, contains some of the most evocative passages in film. His follow-up film, the also brilliant L'Eclisse, is essentially L'Avventura in reverse--wherea...( read more)
I'm afraid I lost patience and interest in this about the time Anna disappears. The relationship between Claudia and Sandro is so insipid and boring, I just wanted that idiot Sandro to die, please, just go away and leave her alone. Blah.
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