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...Avventura (in Italian). A tale of men suffering from the soul-sickness of despair, the film is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of purgation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Avventura (Cino del Duca; Janus), made in Italy by a respected but little-known moviemaker named Michelangelo Antonioni, is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of spiritual purgation, a myth for the Anxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sickness Unto Death | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sickness Unto Death | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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