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L'Avventura
Original Italian film poster
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Produced by
Amato Pennasilico
Written by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Elio Bartolini
Tonino Guerra
Starring
Gabriele Ferzetti
Monica Vitti
Lea Massari
Music by
Giovanni Fusco
Cinematography
Aldo Scavarda
Editing by
Eraldo Da Roma
Studio
Cino Del Duca
Distributed by
Cino Del Duca (Italy)
Janus Films (US)
Release date(s)
15 May 1960 (1960-05-15) (Cannes Film Festival)
29 June 1960 (1960-06-29) (Italy)
4 March 1961 (1961-03-04) (United States)
Running time
145 minutes
Country
Italy
France
Language
Italian
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."[1]
The film was produced in 1959 on location in Italy under difficult financial and physical conditions. It made Monica Vitti an international star.[2] It is the first of a "trilogy" by Antonioni, followed by La Notte (1961) and Eclipse (1962).[3][4][5]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Responses
4 Awards
5 Meaning
6 References
7 External links
[edit] Plot
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 childish Sandro. After napping on the rocks, they awaken to find that Anna has gone without a trace. Annoyed at first, then worried, they search for her, helped by Anna's diplomat father who soon comes to the island with a police ship and helicopter.
Within a few days, they drift back to their lives as the story shifts to a new and somewhat stormy relationship between Sandro and Claudia who is at once happy and wracked with guilt over her missing best friend. On the rooftop of a cathedral, Sandro asks Claudia to marry him, but she is too startled by this to answer in a meaningful way. The two then check into a swank resort hotel near Messina where Sandro's business partner is staying. While Claudia goes to bed, Sandro stays up and wanders among the partying guests. Claudia spends a sleepless night waiting for him to come back to their room and as dawn breaks frantically searches for Sandro throughout the deserted public spaces of the hotel, only to find him on a couch with a costly call girl. Claudia flees them both and breaks down into tears on a vista overlooking the sea. Sandro, seemingly disgusted with himself, catches up to her.
The last scene, which has no dialogue, starkly shows Sandro's almost hopeless weakness and emptiness as he sits in tears before a blank, scarred wall. Claudia stands steadfastly beside him, while Mount Etna broods before her as if ready to erupt.[6][7]
[edit] Cast
Gabriele Ferzetti as Sandro
Monica Vitti as Claudia
Lea Massari as Anna
Dominique Blanchar as Giulia
Renzo Ricci as Anna's Father
Dorothy de Poliolo as Gloria Perkins
Esmeralda Ruspoli as Patrizia
James Addams as Corrado
Lelio Luttazzi as Raimondo
Giovanni Petrucci as Young Prince
Jack O'Connell as Old man on the island
Angela Tommasi di Lampedusa as The Princess
[edit] Responses
Released in 1960, the film was booed by members of the audience during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (Antonioni and Vitti fled the theater); but after a second screening it won the Jury Prize[8] and went on to both international box office success and what has since been described as "hysteria."[1][2][9]
L'Avventura influenced the visual language of cinema, changing how subsequent films looked, and has been named by some critics as one of the best ever made. However, it has been criticized by others for its seemingly uneventful plot and slow pacing along with the existentialist themes.[1][2][6][7]
In 2010, it was ranked #40 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema."[10]
[edit] Awards
Event
Category
Winner/Nominee
Won
BAFTA Awards
Best Film
Michelangelo Antonioni
No[11]
Best Foreign Actress
Monica Vitti
No[11]
British Film Institute Awards
Sutherland Trophy
Michelangelo Antonioni
Yes[12]
Cannes Film Festival
Jury Prize
Michelangelo Antonioni
Yes[8]
[edit] Meaning
Much has been made of Anna's unsolved disappearance, which Roger Ebert has described as being linked to the film's mostly wealthy, bored, and spoiled characters, none of whom have fulfilling relationships: They are all, wrote Ebert, "on the brink of disappearance."[9] Along with much of Antonioni's other work, L'Avventura is often cited as an early feminist film with strong and richly characterized female protagonists.[2]
[edit] References
^ a b c Adair, Gilbert, "Michelangelo Antonioni - Director whose 'L'Avventura' set new parameters for modern cinema (obituary)", independent.co.uk, 1 August 2007, retrieved 20 September 2008
^ a b c d Valdez, Joe, L'Avventura (1960), thisdistractedglobe.com, 26 August 2007, retrieved 20 September 2008
^ Gazetas, Aristides (April 2008). An introduction to world cinema. McFarland. p. 246. ISBN 9780786439072. http://books.google.com/books?id=CPuZ-2UtVRwC&pg=PA246. Retrieved 31 May 2011. "L'avventura, La notte and L'eclisse form a trilogy advancing the ... Although his early trilogy gave Antonioni international prominence as a filmmaker ..."
^ Wakeman, John (October 1988). World Film Directors: 1945-1985. H.W. Wilson. p. 65. http://books.google.com/books?id=8aEYAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 31 May 2011. "The third film of Antonioni's trilogy, L'eclisse (The Elipse, 1962), incorporates features of both its predecessors. Like La notte it is dominated by one theme, this time not the degradation of creativity but rather the alienating ..."
^ Cameron, Ian Alexander; Wood, Robin (1971). Antonioni. Praeger. p. 105. http://books.google.com/books?id=PXhZAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 31 May 2011. "The form of the 'trilogy' comes from the parallel between the first two films, particularly in their endings which are countered by L'Eclisse. The first two end at dawn with a renewal of a relationship which had been partly destroyed ..."
^ a b dvdverdict.com, L'Avventura: Criterion Collection, retrieved 20 September 2008
^ a b ejumpcut.org, Jump cut: A review of contemporary media, retrieved 20 September 2008
^ a b "Festival de Cannes: L'avventura". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3319/year/1960.html. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
^ a b Ebert, Roger, "L'Avventura (1960) - Great Films", Chicago Sun Times, 19 January 1997, retrieved 20 September 2008
^ "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema | 40. L'Avventura". Empire. http://www.empireonline.com/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/default.asp?film=40.
^ a b "BAFTA Awards Database: 1960". bafta.org. http://www.bafta.org/awards-database.html?year=1960&category=false&award=false. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
^ "British Film Institute Awards: 3rd". bfi.org. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/8815. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
[edit] External links
L'Avventura at the Internet Movie Database
L'Avventura at AllRovi
L'Avventura at Rotten Tomatoes
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1950s
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
I Vinti (1952)
The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
"Attempted Suicide" [one of six segments comprising Love in the City (1953)]
Le Amiche (1955)
Il Grido (1957)
1960s
L'Avventura (1960)
La Notte (1961)
Eclipse (1962)
Red Desert (1964)
"The Screen Test" [one of three segments comprising The Three Faces (1965)]
Blowup (1966)
1970s
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
The Passenger (1975)
1980s
The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)
Identification of a Woman (1982)
1990s
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
2000s
"The Dangerous Thread of Things" [one of three segments comprising Eros (2004)]
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N.U. (1948)
Lies of Love (1949)
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1952
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Le Jour se l¨¨ve
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Brief Encounter
The Rules of the Game
Le Million
1962
Citizen Kane
L'Avventura
The Rules of the Game
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Ugetsu
Battleship Potemkin
Bicycle Thieves
Ivan the Terrible
La Terra Trema
L'Atalante
1972
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The Rules of the Game
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The General
The Magnificent Ambersons
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Wild Strawberries
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The Rules of the Game
Seven Samurai
Singin' in the Rain
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L'Avventura
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Seven Samurai
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The Rules of the Game
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