L’Avventura (The Adventure)

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960
B&W, cert PG, 143 mins

Saturday 5 July, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre

A group of rich Italians are on a cruise off the coast of Sicily when one woman mysteriously disappears. The woman’s boyfriend and a close friend begin a search for her, and a desultory romance develops.

With its leisurely pace, sparse dialogue and elusive narrative 'L’Avventura' marked a new, enigmatic departure in cinema.

Film historian Geoffrey Nowell-Smith describes it as ‘a film which makes the world look different, and after which other films look stale.’

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