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FENWAY: Another Italian in the same vein, Michaelangelo Antonini, has turned out L'Avventura, which deals with the same society as La Dolce Vita, and draws many of the same conclusions. In telling his story of a missing person at an island party, Antonini produces a slow but polished work of art. (Won a Special Award at Cannes, and took first prize at the London Film Festival...
...Aimless Man (look for him in Vitteloni, The Cousins, Shadows, l'Avventura, and La Dolce Vita is young (25 or 30, unemployed, i.e. graduate student, hack writer, skilled car theif, etc., handsome (Continental, plenty of hair, dissatisfied (you don't know quit why, and good with women (evidently. Every Aimless Man chain smokes, drives fast, and expresses a weakness for classical music...
...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...
...Avventura (in Italian). An interminable but fascinating study of the intolerable boredom that grips contemporary Rome's empty-souled profligates...
...Avventura (in Italian). An interminable but fascinating study of the intolerable boredom that grips contemporary Rome's empty-souled profligates...