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L'avventura

Drama. Mystery. Romance A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker
"Rightly considered to be a cinematic landmark (...) Antonioni pushed his new style to an extraordinary aesthetic and philosophical extreme"  POS
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Empire
Empire
"For those who love obscure European cinema this is one of the true masterpieces."  POS
United StatesUnited States Film School Rejects "If you've ever hoped for the fusion between classic visual art and film, the last scene of L'Avventura is one of the most beautiful things you'll ever get the pleasure to lay on your eyes." POS
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
"It's a work that requires some patience -- a 145-minute mystery that strategically elides any conventional denouement -- but more than amply repays the effort." POS
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Time Out
Time Out
"If it once seemed the ultimate in arty, intellectually chic movie-making, the film now looks all too studied and remote a portrait of emotional sterility." NEU
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"L'Avventura becomes a place in our imagination -- a melancholy moral desert."  POS
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