L'Avventura (1960)
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Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 26 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.6/10
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... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dominique Blanchar, Lea Massari
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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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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06/10/08
Objectively, this is an important film -- maybe even close to a great film.
09/12/07
It's a slow paced personal film that welcomes tedium as readily as mainstream films welcome action.
08/14/07
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.
07/31/07
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One of Antonioni's finest films, and a landmark in the devlopment of cinematic narrative.
08/29/06
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.
02/09/06
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.
06/07/04
A beguiling mystery that not only refuses any answers, but makes you guess repeatedly at what the question really is.
04/20/04
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.
05/20/03
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