Review of L'Avventura (1960) by Reece L — 06 Oct 2015
In Antonioni's L'Avventura, what goes unspoken is more important than what's actually verbalized, situation and silence dictating the success or failure of a relationship more than any futile attempt a person may make at cultivating intimacy.
His characters experience profoundly tumultuous relationships that leave them emotionally crippled and overwhelmed to the point of paralysis, but they have no means of communicating their feelings with those around them in a way that might relieve them of their pain.
Love is often like this, inner-fears and guilty instances of doubt going unacknowledged in order to enable the complacency; their infidelities are a result of this lack of transparency, and when they finally begin to understand each other, it's only after putting themselves through needless emotional abuse.
Sadly, this is also true to life.
This review of L'Avventura (1960) was written by Reece L on 06 Oct 2015.
L'Avventura has generally received very positive reviews.
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