L'Avventura
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Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
| Released | 14 Sep 1960 |
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| Genres | Drama, Mystery |
| Runtime | 2 hours, 24 minutes |
| Countries | France, Italy |
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Here’s another film of which so much has been said and written over the years that you wind up thinking: There’s nothing left to say … But of course, that’s always a cop-out because it’s never true—there’s always more to say about a film, to see it again is to see it anew, to see it in 2014 as opposed to 1960 is a very different experience, and for some people it will literally be brand-new (to those people, I would say, simply: See it! Now!!). It’s difficult to think of a film that has a more powerful understanding of the way that people are bound to the world around them, by what they see and touch and taste and hear. I realize that L’avventura is supposed to be about characters who are “alienated” from their surroundings, but that word has been used so often to describe this film and Antonioni’s films in general that it more or less shuts down thought. In fact, I see it, more than ever, as a movie about people in spiritual distress: their spiritual signals are disrupted, which is why they see the world around them as hostile and unforgiving. Visually, sensually, thematically, dramatically, in every way, it’s one of the great works of cinema.
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Antonioni is for me a cinematic animal. Every one of his films contains its own pace and language. L’Avventura's beauty and complexity is almost uncomfortable. Its ending always leaves a void within me which can only be filled by watching it again.
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