L' Avventura [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Monica Vitti , Gabriele Ferzetti , Lea Massari , Dominique Blanchar , James Addams
Blu-ray
(Special Edition / Wide Screen / Subtitled / B&W)
$39.99
- Release Date: 09/04/2014
- UPC: 0715515123716
- Original Release: 1960
- Rating: NR
- Source: CRITERION
- Region Code: A
- Presentation: [B&W, Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 8580
- Sales rank: 9,828
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This exceptional Italian mystery offers potent comments upon life in the bourgeoisie class and upon the isolation sometimes suffered by people in love. The tale begins when a girl suddenly vanishes during a yachting trip. Her lover and her best friend begin searching for her. During their quest, the two become lovers.
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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.