La Notte
1962
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When "L'Avventura" was released, it became a joke to refer to "Antonioniennui." At its premiere at the Cannes festival, the audience booed, but it won the Jury Prize and became a box-office success all over the world.
L'Avventura marks a bewitchingly ambiguous milestone in Antonioni's career -- and European cinema in general. Read Critics Reviews
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- Monica Vitti
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Societé Cinématographique Lyre
L'Avventura is a film all of one piece: landscape and architecture, the sound of the sea and the eloquent asides of Giovanni Fusco's score. Full Review | Aug 10, 2022
L'Avventura (1960)**** Young woman (Lea Massari) suddenly disappears during a boating trip on an inhabited island. Shortly afterward, her boyfriend (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend (Monica Vitti) became attracted to each other.
Apr 12, 2002 · L’Avventura, the first movement in Antonioni’s great tetralogy, remains the most haunting representation of the ennui of modern life. It is the most audacious rhetorical shift in cinematic history: a woman disappears off the face of the earth while on a boat trip to the rocky Aeolian Islands.
L’avventura: the film that redefined the cinema. Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura is now more influential than ever, argued this feature from our August 2011 issue, written in anticipation of our 2012 Greatest Films of All Time poll. Updated: 28 September 2023.
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L'Avventura is the first film of a trilogy by Antonioni, followed by La Notte (1961) and L'Eclisse (1962). It has appeared on Sight & Sound's list of the critics' top ten greatest films ever made three times in a row: It was voted second in 1962, fifth in 1972 and seventh in 1982.
