L'Avventura (The Adventure) (1960)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded socialites, including Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), an aging architect who sold out for easy money long ago, his mistress Anna (Lea Massari), and her friend Claudia (Monica Vitti), who doesn't fit in with the wealthy jet-setters' dissolute ethics. When Anna disappears
Jun 29, 1960 Wide
Jul 3, 2001
Janus Films
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Cast
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Gabriele Ferzetti
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Monica Vitti
Claudia -
Lea Massari
Anna -
Dominique Blanchar
Giulia -
Renzo Ricci
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Dorothy de Poliolo
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James Addams
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Lelio Luttazzi
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Giovanni Petrucci
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Esmeralda Ruspoli
Patrizia
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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (1) | DVD (16)
It's easy to bash Antonioni as passe. It's harder, I think, to explain the cinematic power of the way his camera watches, and waits, while the people on screen stave off a dreadful loneliness.
Top CriticAntonioni created, as the Cannes jury put it in 1960, a new language of cinema, one that perfectly expressed a modern alienation that's enduring as well as the film.
A graduate of Screenwriting 1-2 might dismiss this method as casualness or even carelessness, but every shot and bit of business in L'Avventura represents calculation of the highest order.
The first ten minutes make it clear that this is the work of a discerning, troubled, uniquely gifted artist who speaks to us through the refined center of his art.
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.
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.
Always fusing neo-realism with science-fiction, Antonioni's world is one of superficies and emotions hardening into titanium
Carelessness - physical, emotional, intellectual and relational - is something of a virus in the film.
[VIDEO ESSAY] "L'avventura" is a haunting film that presages Fellini's post-modern cinema, and informs the French New Wave that gave way to such iconic auteurs as Jean Luc Goddard.
If you've ever hoped for the fusion between classic visual art and film, the last scene of L'Avventura is one of the most beautiful things you'll ever get the pleasure to lay on your eyes.
a bleak, even blank, portrait of humanity failing to find again the values it has so carelessly allowed itself to lose.
Objectively, this is an important film -- maybe even close to a great film.
It's a slow paced personal film that welcomes tedium as readily as mainstream films welcome action.
One of Antonioni's finest films, and a landmark in the devlopment of cinematic narrative.
One of the key works in film history.
To date, this is the best Italian film I've seen.
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.
A beguiling mystery that not only refuses any answers, but makes you guess repeatedly at what the question really is.
An essential masterwork of the Italian cinema...
In many ways, an encounter with this film may be even stranger than in 1960, despite Antonioni's enormous influence on other filmmakers. It shows us how far the presentation and destabilising power of time and space can be pushed in feature-film cinema.
Audience Reviews for L'Avventura (The Adventure)
More than any other film L'Avventura seems to define the spirit of a time in cinema when anything seemed possible and there was no territory into which it could not venture. (The more I think about it, post-war Italian cinema may be my favorite "genre." It didn't succumb to any filmic conventions, and approached weighty subject matter with grace and elegance.) Above all what it seeks to capture is the world of fleeting emotion, feelings which are unstable and crystallize only momentarily in the camera's gaze. After L'Avventura, Antonioni did not look back. He made three further films with Monica Vitti --The Night (1961), Eclipse (1962), and Red Desert (1964) -- each time pushing further back the frontiers of what cinema could explore. It's hard to say which of these films is the best, but L'Avventura is the one that started Antonioni on his quest, and remains the one that most clearly represents the unique nature of his art.
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Foreign Titles
- Die mit der Liebe spielen (DE)
- The Adventure (L'avventura) (UK)
