Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: Year: 1960 Release date: RRP:$ 34.99$ 19.99
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When L’Avventura premiered alongside La Dolce Vita at the 1960 Cannes
Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, it ignited a storm of controversy
that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo
Antonioni – he went on to direct some of the most influential art films
of the 60s and 70s including Blow Up (1967) and The Passenger (1975).
The first film in Antonioni’s “Alienation Trilogy” which included
L’Eclisse(1962) and La Notte (1961) - all starred the beautiful Monica
Vitti - L’Avventura is a scathing depiction of an amoral, sexually
corrupted world. Bonded by association more than love, an aimless group
of wealthy socialites depart on a yacht cruise in the Mediterranean,
landing on a barren island off the Sicily coast - symbolic of their
spiritual desolation – before a strange disappearance ushers fear,
infidelity and impossible desire.
