L'Avventura
(1960)
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L'Avventura
(1960)
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Gabriele Ferzetti | ... | ||
Monica Vitti | ... | ||
Lea Massari | ... | ||
Dominique Blanchar | ... |
Giulia
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Renzo Ricci | ... |
Anna's Father
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James Addams | ... |
Corrado
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Dorothy De Poliolo | ... |
Gloria Perkins
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Lelio Luttazzi | ... |
Raimondo
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Giovanni Petrucci | ... |
Prince Goffredo
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Esmeralda Ruspoli | ... |
Patrizia
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Jack O'Connell | ... |
Old man on the island
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Angela Tommasi Di Lampedusa | ... |
The Princess
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Franco Cimino |
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Prof. Cucco | ... |
Ettore
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Giovanni Danesi |
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A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend, try without success to find her. While looking for the missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the missing Anna. Written by Dork <tkarapit@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
A real masterpiece! Antonioni at his best! He is able to capture in a unique visual style the tragedy that surrounds people and their inability to communicate. And yet they are always longing for comfort, love and forgiveness.
It starts as a mystery but it later goes in search of deep human feelings. The scenes are so rich you'd be surprised to be completely mesmerized and lost in his world.
Slow pacing, of course. But what can you expect when you are watching a movie that look like a moving painting of two hours. You simply have adjust yourself to the interior beat of this brilliant movie which opened a decade of successes in Italian cinema history.