Word: avventura
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...DESERT. The bleak beauty of industrial Ravenna fills Director Michelangelo Antonioni's (L'Avventura) first color film -a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti...
...images to vary his now-familiar themes (L'Avventura, La Notte...
...DESERT. Against a bleak industrial landscape near Ravenna, Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte) explores the neurotic problems of a young wife (Monica Vitti) and, frame by frame, fills his first color film with precisely shaded insights and breathtaking beauty...
...DESERT. Against bleak industrial landscape near Ravenna, Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte) explores the neurotic problems of a young wife (Monica Vitti) and, frame by frame, fills his first color film with precisely shaded insights and breathtaking beauty...
Fascinated by his vivid experiment with style, Antonioni does not venture far in subject from the ideas he has already expressed eloquently-and at immoderate length-in L'Avventura, La Notte and Eclipse. His is a world alive with the muffled cries of human beings struggling to live without resenting it, and to communicate with other survivors in prosperous, increasingly complex societies that fill the stomach but starve the spirit. Paradoxically, Red Desert fails as drama because Antonioni, with scrupulous care, makes places and things so much more interesting than his people that an audience cannot always tell...