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L'Avventura

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L'Avventura (1960)

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Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 26  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.6/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 40 mins

Synopsis: L'AVVENTURA, one of Michelangelo Antonioni's most gripping works, features expert photography and an electric cast that, together, seem to try to fool the audience. As a result, viewers are engrossed as they watch the majestic film unroll, waiting for Antonioni to reveal a piece of plot or... L'AVVENTURA, one of Michelangelo Antonioni's most gripping works, features expert photography and an electric cast that, together, seem to try to fool the audience. As a result, viewers are engrossed as they watch the majestic film unroll, waiting for Antonioni to reveal a piece of plot or offer up any cinematic clue to help them solve the film's mystery. In a style that would later be known as Hitchcockian, that moment never comes. One summery Saturday afternoon a group of friends living in Rome departs on a yachting trip out to a local island. Two of the group, Anna (Lea Massari) and Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), young lovers considering marriage, have a dispute; that afternoon, Sandro announces that Anna is missing. A thorough search of the island is made on Anna's behalf, but she is never found, and Sandro, who remains relatively unconcerned, is never questioned. In fact, before the yachting group even returns to the mainland, Sandro tries to pick up Anna's best friend, Claudia (Monica Vitti). Still, he is not even considered suspicious, but viewers can smell a rat. Claudia and Sandro galavant through the Italian countryside, supposedly investigating Claudia's disappearance, but their true motives are never clear, even in the last--entirely enigmatic--scene of the movie. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dominique Blanchar, Lea Massari

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 5, 2001

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer
  • RSDL

Audio:

  • Mono - Italian

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Gene Youngblood
  • Documentary - 1. ANTONIONI: DOCUMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS
  • 2. RESTORATION DEMONSTRATION
  • Additional Footage - 1. Jack Nicholson Reads Antonioni's Writings
  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Additional Text - 1. Reprint of Antonioni's Statements About L'AVVENTURA

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a bleak, even blank, portrait of humanity failing to find again the values it has so carelessly allowed itself to lose.

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Anton Bitel
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Cole Smithey
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01/01/08
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Objectively, this is an important film -- maybe even close to a great film.

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09/12/07
Ken Hanke
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It's a slow paced personal film that welcomes tedium as readily as mainstream films welcome action.

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08/14/07
Dennis Schwartz
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It's a work that requires some patience -- a 145-minute mystery that strategically elides any conventional denouement -- but more than amply repays the effort.

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07/31/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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One of Antonioni's finest films, and a landmark in the devlopment of cinematic narrative.

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08/29/06
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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One of the key works in film history

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08/22/06
Michael E. Grost
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If it once seemed the ultimate in arty, intellectually chic movie-making, the film now looks all too studied and remote a portrait of emotional sterility.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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06/13/05
Emanuel Levy
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To date, this is the best Italian film I've seen.

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04/11/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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L'avventura heralded a new attitude in film, and in that sense it's key. But it's the unique atmosphere for which we return to it.

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06/07/04
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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A beguiling mystery that not only refuses any answers, but makes you guess repeatedly at what the question really is.

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04/20/04
Nick Davis
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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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03/26/04
Frank Swietek
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An essential masterwork of the Italian cinema...

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03/12/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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10/31/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Like a breathless storyteller who has a long and detailed story to tell and is so eager to get on to the big doings that he forgets to mention several important things, Signor Antonioni deals only with what seems to interest him.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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07/29/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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07/26/02
David Poland
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