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FENWAY: Still holding forth is Michelangelo Antonioni's lengthy but carefully turned tale of aristocratic decadence at a Sicilian party, L'Avventura...
...troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...
...association is largely a journalists' creation. Fellini, 41, and Antonioni, 48, are experimenters whose latest films delicately dissect the effete upper classes. Visconti, who is 55, still concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...