Review of L'Avventura (1960) by Jack G — 23 Jul 2013
I don't love it as much as some of the other critical intelligentsia (sic) out there. But it has some profound moments, including the most affectingly feminist statement in film of the time, maybe ever (you'll know the scene, it's only one, when you see it), and despite how shallow the characters are for a lot of the run time the end packs a surprising wallop.
Leave it to existential moral films of the 1960's, this being one of the grandaddies, to show us how miserable we end up being in the world if we don't break free of one another. It's basically like if Camus or Beckett wrote Psycho - what happens when you "kill off" your main character half an hour into the movie - and then gave us superlative cinematography (seriously, this is an amazing movie to just look at at times, it's hard to deny Antonioni his eye at least) along with characters just a cut above Twilight folk.
It's a genuinely interesting film about decaying relationships, but it's never emotionally engaging, which is its flaw.
This review of L'Avventura (1960) was written by Jack G on 23 Jul 2013.
L'Avventura has generally received very positive reviews.
Was this review helpful?
