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L'Avventura
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Plot This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded socialites, including Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), an aging architect who sold out for easy money long ago, his mistress Anna (Lea Massari), and her friend Claudia (Monica Vitti), who doesn't fit in with the wealthy jet-setters' dissolute ethics. When Anna disappears during a tour of a volcanic island, Claudia initially blames Sandro's emotionally barren behavior toward her. As they search the island, however, Claudia and Sandro grow closer and -- when it is apparent that Anna is gone forever -- become lovers. Unfortunately, Sandro cannot find anything decent inside himself and betrays Claudia with a local prostitute. Caught in the act, Sandro has a heartrending breakdown on a desolate beach, but Claudia silently forgives him. L'avventura caught many audiences who were expecting a mystery by surprise; as in La notte (1961), The Eclipse (1962), and Red Desert (1964), Antonioni is interested less in developing a logical story than in exploring states of feeling and breakdowns in human connection. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Review Catcalls greeted its Cannes Film Festival premiere, but filmmakers and critics recognized the artistic importance of Michelangelo Antonioni's experiments with psychologizing film narrative, and L'avventura (1960) was awarded a special Jury Prize. Abandoning the kind of cause-and-effect plot line that might be expected in a film about the search for a missing woman, Antonioni instead sought to examine the barren inner lives of the postwar rich; the "adventure" is in the encounters between characters as they attempt and fail to make emotional connections. Limiting the audience's knowledge of Anna's disappearance to what Sandro and Claudia learn, and depicting screen actions in real time, Antonioni turns viewing the film into a direct experience of the initial excitement over the search and the waning of involvement as the effort becomes fruitless. Antonioni's carefully controlled deep focus widescreen compositions further communicate the characters' existential ennui and psychic disconnection from each other in evocatively barren environments. Bolstered by the Cannes experience, L'avventura became Antonioni's first worldwide success; released within a year of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1959), L'avventura helped announce a vital new era in international art cinema. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Cast
Gabriele Ferzetti - Sandro
Monica Vitti - Claudia
Lea Massari - Anna
Dominique Blanchar - Giulia
Renzo Ricci - Anna's Father Dorothy de Poliolo - Gloria Perkins; James Addams - Corrado; Lelio Luttazzi - Raimondo; Giovanni Petrucci - Young Prince; Renato Pinciroli; Esmeralda Ruspoli - Patrizia
CreditAdrianna Berselli - Costume Designer, Franco Indovina - First Assistant Director, Gianni Arduini - First Assistant Director, Michelangelo Antonioni - Director, Eraldo Da Roma - Editor, Giovanni Fusco - Composer (Music Score), Piero Poletto - Production Designer, Aldo Scavarda - Cinematographer, Luciano Perugia - Producer, Piero Poletto - Set Designer, Michelangelo Antonioni - Screenwriter, Tonino Guerra - Screenwriter, Elio Bartolini - Screenwriter
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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
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
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.
External links
L'Avventura at the Internet Movie Database
L'Avventura at AllRovi
L'Avventura at Rotten Tomatoes
v ˇ¤ d ˇ¤ eFilms directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
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)]
shorts
N.U. (1948) ? Lies of Love (1949)
v ˇ¤ d ˇ¤ eBFI Sight & Sound Poll
1952
Bicycle Thieves ? City Lights ? The Gold Rush ? Battleship Potemkin ? Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ? Greed ? 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 ? Greed ? Ugetsu ? Battleship Potemkin ? Bicycle Thieves ? Ivan the Terrible ? La Terra Trema ? L'Atalante
1972
Citizen Kane ? The Rules of the Game ? Battleship Potemkin ? 8? ? L'Avventura ? Persona ? The Passion of Joan of Arc ? The General ? The Magnificent Ambersons ? Ugetsu ? Wild Strawberries
1982
Citizen Kane ? The Rules of the Game ? Seven Samurai ? Singin' in the Rain ? 8? ? Battleship Potemkin ? L'Avventura ? The Magnificent Ambersons ? Vertigo ? The General ? The Searchers
1992
Critics'
Citizen Kane ? The Rules of the Game ? Tokyo Story ? Vertigo ? The Searchers ? L'Atalante ? The Passion of Joan of Arc ? Pather Panchali ? Battleship Potemkin ? 2001: A Space Odyssey
Directors'
Citizen Kane ? 8? ? Raging Bull ? La Strada ? L'Atalante ? The Godfather ? Modern Times ? Vertigo ? The Godfather Part II ? The Passion of Joan of Arc ? Rashomon ? Seven Samurai
2002
Critics'
Citizen Kane ? Vertigo ? The Rules of the Game ? The Godfather & The Godfather Part II ? Tokyo Story ? 2001: A Space Odyssey ? Battleship Potemkin ? Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ? 8? ? Singin' in the Rain
Directors'
Citizen Kane ? The Godfather & The Godfather Part II ? 8? ? Lawrence of Arabia ? Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ? Bicycle Thieves ? Raging Bull ? Vertigo ? Rashomon ? The Rules of the Game ? Seven Samurai
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