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| Michelangelo Antonioni: L'avventura / The Adventure (IT/FR 1960). Monica Vitti as Claudia. Photo from: Gary Tooze / DVD Beaver, 2014. |
Seikkailu / Äventyret.
IT/FR 1960. D: Michelangelo Antonioni. 141 min
The restored version by Mediaset / Compass Film etc.
A Cinecittà Holding print with English subtitles viewed at Cinema Orion, 7 September 2008
Trilogia esistenziale.
Trilogia dell'incomunicabilità.
In memoriam Michelangelo Antonioni 1912-2007.
Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman died on the same day, 30 July 2007, a year ago.
The definitive version, but print has a slightly duped look (not quite sharp). The visual quality in our vintage print is superior. But in Finland L'avventura was released in a shortened version of 130 min.
I watched the first reel of the masterpiece only. In Rome, Anna (Lea Massari) says goodbye to his father. He has retired from his job as a diplomat (decades of lies), and is now retiring from his position as a father.
In vain he warns Anna from Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti, famous from having portrayed Casanova and Puccini). He has seen through him.
Anna and Claudia (Monica Vitti) drive to Sandro, at whose home Anna seduces him to make love. They start the sea journey on a yacht to the Aeolian islands of Sicily.
The sense of freedom and alienation is unique from the outset.
In Antonioni's obituaries (the best of which was written by Martin Scorsese in The New York Times) this film's status as a turning-point in film history was confirmed. It taught us a new way to see.
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It looks like the restorers of this edition did not have access to the camera negative. Might the negative have been stuck at this point in the Leo Kirch limbo.
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