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1960

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Starring	Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Director	Michelangelo Antonioni
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

L'Avventura

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. 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.

Starring	Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Director	Michelangelo Antonioni
Studio	MR BONGO FILMS
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 23 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Italian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1960 To Rent: DVD: 30 Jun 2008

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- Though once compared to Psycho, made the same year and also about a couple searching for a woman who mysteriously... read more on Time Out
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  This is abeautifully shot film, with attractive, wealthy italians behaving rather badly, in wonderfully evocative locations. The characters are all quite ... read more »
  
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  Confusing, frustrating a little irritating but strangely magnetic. Whats it about? Love, life, death, fidelity, happiness, mysterious disappearances etc etc - ... read more »
  
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  This is quite a long film - some 140 minutes - with a fairly simple plot and relatively few Events in the action ... accordingly, it must be boring. I wondered... read more »
  
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  This is quite a long film - some 140 minutes - with a fairly simple plot and relatively few Events in the action ... accordingly, it must be boring. I wondered... read more »
  
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  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 ...