Review of L'Avventura (1960) by Adrian B — 19 May 2012
The depth and innovation of Antonioni's art, starting with this film, helped evolve the language of the medium with its consistent reliance on visual metonyms through setting, blocking and composition.
It's a meticulously detailed and thought-out meditation on relationships, human frailty, and a number of life's Big Questions, but these at the expense of emotion. Almost two and a half hours is a lot of time to ask an audience to bear with conceptual experiments and interpretive requirements given little more than curiosity for an emotional pull, but the adventure isn't hollow when its revelations ring true.
That said, the feminist bent probably felt more avant-garde in 1960 than it does today.
This review of L'Avventura (1960) was written by Adrian B on 19 May 2012.
L'Avventura has generally received very positive reviews.
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