Monica vitti l'avventura

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Monica Vitti L'Avventura

monica vitti in l’avventura (1960) dir. michelangelo antonioni

The films of Michelangelo Antonioni and “Deep Water.”

I have a troubling relationship with Michelangelo Antonioni's loose early 60's trilogy (the other two being L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961)), because it seems that just about every time the films become so achingly beautiful that I'm in awe, Antonioni does something that achieves little more than bland fulfillment of the conventions of alienation that were in vogue in the art cinema of the time. L'Eclisse represents the apogee of this divide, with sequences that are among the most…

Here is an early post of mine from 2 years ago, on Antononi's L'AVVENTURA: The late English film critic and writer Alexander Walker [whom I used to see around town regularly] was very perceptive in his movie reviews and his biographies on the likes of Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Garbo and the silent era. His Thursday reviews were essential reading. Here are his comments from a recommendation on a screening of L'AVVENTURA: "Not all great movies, as Pauline Kael tartly…