L'avventura
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre: Black-and-white, Mystery, World cinema, Adventure Drama, Drama
Year: 1960
Country: France, Italy
Language: Italian Language, English Language
Starring: Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Jack O'Connell, Angela Tommasi di Lampedusa, James Addams, Dorothy de Poliolo, Renzo Ricci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Renato Pinciroli
L'Avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from a story he created. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing, which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, as well as for its unusual narrative structure. According to an Antonioni obituary, the film "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time."
The film was produced in 1959 on location in Italy under difficult financial and physical conditions. It made Monica Vitti an international star. It is the first of a "trilogy" by Antonioni, followed by La Notte (1961) and Eclipse (1962).
L'Avventura has a narrative structure in which an apparently important central mystery is gradually forgotten and left unsolved.
The story begins as two young women, Anna (Lea Massari) and Claudia (Monica Vitti), meet for a yacht trip. After picking up Anna's lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), the three join two wealthy couples from Rome on the boat and visit "Lisca Bianca," an almost unpopulated volcanic island off the coast of Sicily, where Anna shows her boredom and unhappiness with the sometimes
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