Word: avventura
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...from the zenith of man's pride and material achievement, the camera descends relentlessly into the convenient hell of a meaningless marriage, into a dark and joyless night of the contemporary soul imagined with monstrous art by Michelangelo Antonioni, the somber master of cinema who made L'Avventura (TIME, April...
...Avventura is not a sequel to La Dolce Vita; it is not social criticism; it is the finest film to reach Boston this year...
...Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a class. It unfolds through personalities instead of tiresome figures transplanted from an Everyman play. And even more gratifying, this gracefully wrought story reveals a person whose uniqueness is respected; it is not a discombobulated tirade against a way-ward society...
...Patrizia. Only Claudia is left. And because she alone remains at the end of the film, the audience must wonder if the story is only that the slob has caught another chick. In the despairing La Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia. L'Avventura is a study of Claudia living, not a hymn of despair or diatribe against society...
...Avventura looking for La Dolce Vita, you will see no more than film clips showing people with too much money and too few principles, to whom everything is pointless. But you will also miss a story finely chiseled into a gem of photography...