Word: sandro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna's fiance and something of a corporate sell-out, becomes enthralled by Anna's best friend, the blond Claudia (Monica Vitti). After an initial, ambivalent embrace between Sandro and Claudia in the still mooredyacht, the movie drifts away from the scene of Anna's disappearance and away from Anna herself...
...narrative looseness, "L'Avventura" is compositionally air-tight. Emotional distance is made literal on screen. The stark black and white of even starker landscapes and the often contrasting coloring of clothes or hair serve to accentuate the social distance with which Claudia, Sandro and their acquaintances struggle...
...figure in the extreme foreground and the extreme background. Women run or walk tensely down long, narrow hall-ways that force the gaze nearly through the plane of the movie screen. The camera leans over a rocky cliff, peering over men's shoulders to a search party far below. Sandro looks over his shoulder to a women standing in front of a painting who turns to look...
...central mystery and plot element of the film, Anna's disappearance, is never explained or resolved. The characters' lives remain aimless, disenchanted, fraught with a low-lying depression and highlighted by occasional bouts of manic energy. Claudia and Sandro drift towards their own terrible resolution without resolution, while the rest of the characters drift out of the film entirely...