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Film · 1960 · Adventure drama
L'Avventura
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
1960
Italy
★ 7.6 editorial score
It was booed off the screen at Cannes and won a prize at the same festival: Antonioni made drift and boredom into subjects, and cinema has been arguing since.
“It can be easy to forget, more than 50 years later, the degree to which Antonioni’s film rewrote the language of cinema, questioning its addiction to storytelling and opening up the possibility for other, more enigmatic and poetic forms of expression. Some of its enduring majesty is owed to the otherworldly presence of Monica Vitti, who is simultaneously bewitching and obscure.”
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