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Fenway: L'AVVENTURA, the longwinded jewel of Italian director Michelangelo Antonini, unwinds the story of decadent Romans on a Sicilian Island and their search for one of their party who is missing. As good or better than La Dolce Vita...
FENWAY: Michelangelo Antioni's longwinded but polished look at a decadent cafe-society party on a remote island, L'AVVENTURA has received awards at the Cannes and London film festivals, and it deserved them. It has been often compared both in content and style to La Dolce Vita, and more than a few consider it the better movie...
CAPRI: One of the most startling and influential pictures in recent years is La Dolce Vita, Frederico Fellini's rambling exposure of the degradation of Rome's cafe-society. Take a cushion with you if you like (it's three hours long), but by all means see it. Direction, acting, and camerawork are unparalleled and stunning...
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...
CAPRI DOLCE VITA: Fredrico Fellini's sweeping panorama of Roman decadence takes three hours to sit through, most of it well worth the time. Acting is top notch, and the camerawork is absoluetly incomparable. Sometimes confused, it is nevertheless a powerful and important film. Evenings...