L'avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from his initial story. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, along with its unusual narrative structure which, taken altogether, "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time."
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L'avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from his initial story. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, along with its unusual narrative structure which, taken altogether, "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time."
The film was produced in 1959 on location in Italy, under difficult financial and physical conditions, and made Monica Vitti an international star. It is the first of a "trilogy" by Antonioni, followed by La notte (1961) and L'eclisse (1962).
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 up for a yacht trip. After picking up Anna's lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), the three join two wealthy...
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