Word: avventura
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...manner. Loren, for instance: he zips past her to concentrate on the delectable comic turn by Paolo Stoppa. Scorsese is more taken by the light playing on Valli's face than the face itself; on the textures of Monica Vitti's hair, in the crystalline monochrome of "L'Avventura," than on the subtlety with which Vitti reveals a wounded soul through huge, blank eyes. In all Scorsese's reveries of a boyhood falling in love with movies, there's no talk of a boy's love-fear-awe-thrill at the women who animated those movies. His wafting memories hardly...
...Cafe Avventura, another eatery in The Garage, has also suffered a decline in business, according to owner Kenneth A. Grassa...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI, director of such quintessentially serious European art films as L'Avventura and Blowup, has said he has "things to show rather than things to say." Thus, despite suffering a stroke eight years ago that left him unable to speak, the 83-year-old was able to direct Beyond the Clouds with the help of WIM WENDERS, himself a director of serious European art films. Instead of talking on the set, Antonioni gesticulated and sketched ideas for shots with one hand. Despite lukewarm reviews, the Oscar nominee's first film in 13 years drew standing ovations last week...
...George Amberg has written of "L'Avventura," Antonioni's characters are "failing without access to the reasons." In the American idiom, Joan Didion wrote in the late '60s of the young hippies of Haight-Ashbury that they were "waiting to be given the words...
...degree to which we are still waiting, or still failing without access to the reasons has become a salient point to legions of more or less listless young people. Antonioni offers no answers, and his attempts at tenderness are few and far between, but "L'Avventura" frames a vocabulary of a kind of despair, both poignant and banal, that can speak for a part of today's unnamed generation...