Word: avventura
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That singular quality of certain films to attract violent criticism and equally strong support, is not a mark of greatness; it is, rather, an indication that technical or stylistic innovations have been strikingly exploited, or that an extreme statement has been made. Citizen Kane and L'Avventura, a classic and a mediocre trump-up, fall into the first category. Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Stanley Kramer's new work fall into the latter...
...AVVENTURA. The year's finest film, possibly a great one: Michelangelo Antonioni looks long and carefully, as if through a microscope, at the life of a lecher, at "the sickness unto death, which is despair...
...journey from the worlds of La Dolce Vita and L'Avventura to that of Rocco and His Brothers is to discover a complex, human statement that goes beyond vignette or myth to the difficult realm of life. Occasionally marred by over-emphasized symbolism and over-played brutality, Rocco subjects one to the ordeals of its creator, and in so doing escapes the usual pitfalls of social realism. It is as if Luchino Visconti (who wrote and directed) were, in one grueling gasp, saying "No, not all poor people are victimized saints; not all city life; yes, tragedy results from human...
...slob has caught another chick. In the despairing Lo Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the essential distinction 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 a 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...