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Bookmark this pageL'Avventura (1960)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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From Time Out London
Though once compared to Psycho, made the same year and also about a couple searching for a woman who mysteriously disappears after featuring heavily in the opening reel, Antonioni's film could not be more dissimilar in tone and effect. Slow, taciturn and coldly elegant in its visual evocation of alienated, isolated figures in a barren Sicilian landscape, the film concerns itself less with how and why the girl vanished from a group of bored and wealthy socialites on holiday, than with the desultory nature of the romance embarked upon by her lover and her best friend while they half-heartedly look for her. 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.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out London Time Out Film Guide 13
Cast & crew
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti
Duration: 145 mins
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