L'avventura (1960)

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A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. But during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other (imdb)

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Directed By: Michelangelo Antonioni

Written By: Tonino Guerra, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini

Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Jack O'Connell, Giovanni Petrucci, Lelio Luttazzi, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams, Dorothy De Poliolo, Angela Tommasi Di Lampedusa

Genres: Romance, Drama, Mystery

AKA: L'Avventura

Country: France, Italy

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Stars	User	Rating
3	Paxton	70 _63rd
There's this one shot that lingers a little too long and that happens one hundred times.
2	eveelun	76 _62nd
Slow and ponderous, often intriguing, sometimes dull. I enjoyed the first 45 minutes or so more than the rest, though there were some interesting parts later on. The film is consistently well shot, the symbolism is at times a bit blatant. Not my favorite Antonioni, but still worthwhile.
2	CCLZA	90 _95th
Once you get into it, you can't stop watching. It's like a cinematic pleasure just to see Monica Vitti in this. A true masterpiece in every level. You'll never forget the beautiful ending scene.
2	Pickpocket	8 _82nd
Admittedly this is a very slow movie but it is also never boring and wouldn't work any other way. The first hour is an easy 10 but it kinda falls apart until the end. Still worth seeing.
2	Alex Watkins	4 _70th
The thematically richer, but less mysterious, twin to L'eclisse.
2	eraserhead	100 _95th
Monica Vitti in my heart forever
2	yesistasty	97 _95th
We are all in our separate orbits, observing each other from afar, disappearing unexpectedly, and colliding in unexpected ways. Antoniono's slow, quiet, beautiful L'avventura is one of the greatest cinematic expression of that fact I've ever encountered.
2	AndreasThau	60 _42nd
Boy was I bored. If it hadn't been for the beautiful work of art that this film, from an objective point of view, is, I'd hate it. But it was one of those experiences where your aesthetic sense is stimulated to an extreme degree, while the plot makes you fall asleep. It's the world's best sleeping pill, this combination, you're bored but still impressed and you get sucked into you pillow with a smile on you face... I love the mood of old italian films like this, still, so it's on the plus side.
1	Moribunny	88 _96th
Will test your patience, because some parts are slow-paced and the rest is rich in inconsequential events and conversations... but you'd better believe it's exactly as it should be. I adore Antonioni's sense of time, for instance the typical love scene ending in "it's getting late, let's go": Nothing is eventual, there's always continuity. This somehow serves to augment the quintessentially mediterranean scenario. A beautiful, well-written, well-directed movie.
1	djross	74 _83rd
Figures trapped in fore- or background play out the pathologies of contemporary desire and existence in a way that is sometimes tedious, but the relentlessness of the exercise, however formal it seemed at times to be, ultimately induced in this viewer a disconcerting and unsettling sense of the horrific aspects of human social and sexual relations (though personal circumstances cannot be excluded as a contributing factor). One problem is that Massari's character is the most interesting.
1	Nathan S	5 _93rd
Confounding and elusive, because it's so antithetical to the established grammars of romance, mystery, and melodrama. Simply, there's very little didactic narrative thrust or psychological insight. It's an amalgamation of mostly non-events which coalesce into mood. Patience required and rewarded, for its lingering only serves to turn its most sentimental moments revelatory.
1	twincinema	80 _75th
I watched this in preparation for the season finale of The White Lotus, and it didn't help me at all figure out who's going to die. I couldn't keep track of how many people were on the boat. Seems like it was the clown car of boats.
1	Suture Self	10 _96th
L'AVVENTURA isn't immediately satisfying but I'm sort of in love with it and believe it to be the best of the alienation trilogy. It follows a cast of wealthy people who go on glamorous boating trips and live with financial ease. Yet despite having everything, there's a sense that everybody is malnourished, lacks meaning in their lives, and is held down by one another's possessive grip - this especially applies to the female characters. Elegant and subtle.
1	TedDedon	90 _86th
The first hour or so of L'Avventura is fantastic. Beautifully shot and clearly the master Antonioni knows how to encapsulate Italy on screen better than virtually anyone else. When the meat of the story kicks in, it starts to lose its majestic air about it, however, it's still an excellent movie all the way through. It is a slow movie, but never boring; if you have the patience to sit through the two and a half hours of L'Avventura expect to be very rewarded.
1	Stain	80 _68th
A real achievement. A movie about boredom and meaninglessness that itself isn't boring at all
1	frederic_g54	7 _57th
Antonioni leaves us with an unresolved plot, as he slowly indicates signs of self-indulgence and little concern for its audience. I appreciate the craftsmanship behind it all; It's beautifully shot and the actors are great but I'll take La Dolce Vita any day over this. Both films end on a similar note yet everything leading up to it is presented in a more promising light.
1	syvyys	94 _98th
i always thought l'avventura is more about how men want to possess women, than about this 'ennui'-thingy. so annas decision to disappear from the patriarchic system is the first, the happy end. she just isn't daddys girl anymore. cool, but she had to vanish. LATER. in one of the first scenes you see claudias hands waving in the wind - free. the very same hands, which are chained to sandro at the second end. she isn't free anymore, she has fallen in love with the system that imprisons her.
1	Vandelay1	84 _94th
Nice Movie
1	Dean Franz	50 _42nd
If you enjoy superficial beauty and abhor substance, this is the film for you. Every meaningless gesture and howlingly bland line of dialogue takes place in gorgeous settings shot and framed exquisitely.
1	psychedelicr	80 _65th
Holy, Monica Vitti is stunning--you don't see beauty like that quite often, especially today. I had to really reconsider the ending for a few hours, and I've come to the agreement that it is a brilliant ending. Truly, the film is boring. His long takes are torturous (very much unlike anything Tarkovsky does), and his mise-en-scene is torrid (intentionally so, of course). I can still say that seeing something like this in a movie theater must have been hypnotizing.
1	fenixdown	82 _83rd
A listless tale with impeccable visuals.
1	FrederikA	50 _33rd
....so.... This is a classical masterpiece why?
1	Jazzaloha	96 _99th
The difference between what men want from women and what women want from men leads to tragic circumstances. Humans deserve pity.
1	PerryStroika	70 _85th
Antonioni has become a period filmmaker, and L'avventura is stamped, in every sense, as a work of the early sixties. I find his approach too literary, and undramatic for its own good. That said, his films gain much by Vitti's presence. Her face is a delicate barometer of the minutest turnings of mental weather. Never have a director and actress dwelled so completely inside each other.
1	Noblet	76 _60th
Beautiful, but the last 30 minutes or so are pretty empty and pointless since the film has hammered home it's themes pretty thoroughly by then.
1	mattorama12	73 _71st
An intriguing film, and one that's not easy for me to rate. It has a sort of hypnotic quality to it, which kept it from feeling slow or plodding despite being objectively slow moving. But there also doesn't seem to be much there there. The social elite are vacuous, but is there really anything more to it than that? I'm not sure. PS, Vitti and Ferzetti are in the running for best-looking screen couple of all time.
1	90sCoffee	60 _15th
Shockingly boring considering the premise. The cinematography isn't even well done considering it's Italy and other films do it just as well without the moping. Rich people are dissatisfied with their empty lives and distract themselves...there's nothing profound or entertaining here, not even wit.
1	IeuanDP	90 _92nd
The rapid, almost numb shifts in the consciousness of L'aaventura and its characters are so uniquely powerful and disconcerting. Anna mysteriously flees the emptiness of a relationship that's born out of the listlessness of decadence - she escapes a superficial forgery of love that's used to plug the existential hole that this forms, and in her place, Claudia is confined by it. This is beautifully shot, leaving the feeling that each environment somehow facilitates these shifts in consciousness.
1	larmor	70 _63rd
Anachronistically, even though I approve of the goal, these critiques of bourgeois society and morals get old (the Exterminating Angel was way better in that sense). So, while it's beautifully shot, it also felt predictable. Watching it in the 60s, before seeing thematically close movies (Rohmer, Fellini), would have probably changed my perception. I also couldn't see any hint of sympathy from Antonioni towards his characters. I really believe he loathes them and shows their corruption.

Average Percentile 70.96% from 1815 Ratings