L'avventura (1960)

Note Générale:

7,9/10   

Réalisateur:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Scénaristes:

Michelangelo Antonioni (story)
Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay) ...

Date de sortie:

4 mars 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Mystère

Intrigue:

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. But during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Island | Search | Italy | Yacht

Récompenses:

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

"I Love You... I Hate You... I Feel Nothing"

Ensemble

Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Sandro
Monica Vitti	...	Claudia
Lea Massari	...	Anna
Dominique Blanchar	...	Giulia
Renzo Ricci	...	Anna's Father
James Addams	...	Corrado
Dorothy De Poliolo	...	Gloria Perkins
Lelio Luttazzi	...	Raimondo
Giovanni Petrucci	...	Prince Goffredo
Esmeralda Ruspoli	...	Patrizia
Jack O'Connell	...	Old man on the island
Angela Tommasi Di Lampedusa	...	The Princess
Franco Cimino
Prof. Cucco	...	Ettore
Giovanni Danesi

Autre(s) titre(s):

L'isola (Italy) (working title)
The Adventure (International: English title) (literal title)

Durée:

143 min

Pays:

Italy | France

Langue:

Italien | Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,78 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Australia:PG | Italy:VM14 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (re-rating) (1995) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:18

Lieux de tournage:

Aeolian Islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy

Société:

Cino del Duca

Anecdotes:

At its premiere at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, this was booed so much to the extent that Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti fled the theater. However, after the second screening there was a complete turn around in how it was perceived and it was awarded the Special Jury Prize, going on to become a landmark of European cinema.

Goofs:

Equipe ou équipement visible: During the sequence in which Sandro and the newspaper reporter cross a street, the shadows of the camera and the crew are clearly and prolongedly visible on the actors and on the street surface.

Guillemet:

Patrizia: Do you like scuba diving?
Raimondo: I simply loath it, yet I must conform, what can you do?

Connexions:

Référencé sur Tempo di viaggio (1983) (TV)

"I Love You... I Hate You... I Feel Nothing"

The circular story, the emphasis on isolation and futility, and the symbolic use of Sicilian landscape returned with greater strength in "L'Avventura," the first film in a free trilogy ("La Notte" and "L'Eclisse" followed) about restless, disillusioned unhappy women and sensitive, unreliable, soft men...

Some way into the movie and without a careful explanation, a central affluent character disappears without a trace from a yachting trip... Few of the group of socialites—wealthy, elegant, bored—come in sight bothered by what has occurred, and while the girl's neglectful sweetheart and her best friend (Monica Vitti) pair off in a search around a remote, uninhabited island, they embark on a spontaneous exciting intimacy…

The story is simple, but the greatness of the film, however, is in two parts... First, it analyzes the psychology of the two main characters in keen and penetrating yet doubtful tones... Second, unconcerned with the reasons for the girl's unexpected disappearance, Antonioni instead concentrates on the moral discomfort that drives forward their closest knowledge to betray her memory...