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Overall Rank: 1000
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 49
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1960
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams
Plot: A group of upper middle class Italians takes a boating trip, stopping on an isolated island. One of their party goes missing, and her best friend and lover stay behind to look for her. Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.
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Black - wrote on 11/24/2011
what can be said in one or few sentences should not be film
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mitchellyoung - wrote on 09/28/2010
The pacing of this film is a little slow and the plot is sort of obtuse, which makes the film hard to get into. I would the last third, however, is a master of combining surreal elements with an atmosphere of intrigue and really propels the conclusion forward.
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L'Avventura
SteelCity99 - wrote on 04/28/2018
Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni established himself as a poet for the first time since he released the first audacious part of his unofficial "Incommunicability Trilogy", which also included the films La Notte (1961) and L'Eclisse (1962). Whereas the subsequent two parts focused on unsuccessful love relationships because of the incapability of owning a respectful empathy and its impact on a surrounding society of snobbishness and delicacies, L'Avventura is a tale of thought-provoking exploration. Its hidden layers of complexity and psychological discussion made of this gorgeous masterpiece a commonly referenced landmark film of sensuous eroticism. When it was premiered at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, it was received with extreme ridicule. Its hype and controversy grew to such …
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