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L' Avventura [VHS]

starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci
directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni

Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165742822
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageItalianOriginal Language
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 141 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: March 04, 1961

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Amazon.com:
Considered by many to be his masterpiece, L’Avventura positioned Michelangelo Antonioni as an international talent. What appears to be a search for a missing person is actually an examination of alienation and self-discovery found along a voyage through the morally decadent world of the idle rich. Less concerned with a smooth plotline, Antonioni tells his story through the use of symbolic images and flawless character development. Using 'real time’ camera shots and rich, landscape imagery, Michelangelo Antonioni creates an unpredictable world where nothing is ever resolved. Ironically, what makes L’Avventura so unpredictable is the high level of realism portrayed by each character and their environments. This isn’t your packaged, formulaic film with a happy ending. A tough one to watch but well worth it...and it gets better and better with repeat viewings. L’Avventura is quintessential Antonioini. Not to be missed. --Rob Bracco

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- The adventure of truly wonderful film-making
The first in a trilogy of films about couples in a crisis, L'Avventura takes place in an Italy enjoying an economic boom. The couple in L'Avventura is made up of Monica Vitti and Gabrielle Ferzetti. Sandro (Ferzetti) is an architect ,an intellectual, as in all three films, with the story of the same couple almost. An event, the loss of Sandro's mistress(Anna),while out on islands of Aeolia,north of Sicily, precedes the coming together of Claudia (Vitti) and Sandro as new lovers. The sense of alienation ... Read More

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- Lives adrift...
"L'Avventura"(1960) was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. The story surrounds the disappearance of Anna(Lea Massari) on an island off the coast of Sicily. As the movie develops, and the search for Anna widens to the mainland, her lover, Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), and Anna's friend, Claudia (Monica Vitti) begin to become romantically involved. The central mystery of Anna's disappearance is allowed to drift away as Sandro's and Claudia's relationship slowly becomes the focus of the movie. And even though ... Read More

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- A woman's perspective on man's fecklessness
This film challenges people because it challenges all preconceptions about narrative storytelling. It dispenses with any of the usual motivations that drive characters and their stories and, in the process, achieves an even greater sort of truth, as how many of us go through life living out a plot of some kind? What story there is in L'Avventura is built around a McGuffin (a lady vanishes), but the film is really just playing with our sense of space and perspective, building our awareness of what is going ... Read More

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- If you can't out-act a post...
On its initial screening at Cannes, this movie was heartily booed. When I finally build that time machine, one of my first stops will be to go back and join that chorus of boos - lustily even. The movie then turned around and won some pretentious prize because the judges figgered, Hey, if WE don't understand it, it MUST be genius. And of course the legions of the pretentious have fallen right in line.

First off, the main thing that's praised is the cinematography, which is unquestionably praiseworthy. ... Read More

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- Maybe Best and Most Accessible Antonioni
"The Adventure" is a sibling of another Italian masterpiece shot in 1960, Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" - if you have seen that one, don't miss this. The theme is similar; mostly unsatisfying life of the rich drifting from one pleasure to another at all cost. At about half-point in run time, "Avventura" gently and for a viewer almost unwittingly shifts from being a kind of mystery (search for a missing young woman) to a deep psychological study of Claudia (Monica Vitti in a breakthrough performance at one level with ... Read More

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