This study provides a detailed account of the 1960s film L'avventura. The book argues that in order to appreciate the film's greatness, it is necessary to understand not only that the film is a classic, but also that it represents a revolution in cinema.
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L'Avventura (The Adventure), the movie that put director Michelangelo Antonioni on the map, is a masterpiece. For Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema and author of this book, "no film before or since has ever made such an impression on me.... It is a film which makes the world look different, and after which other films look stale."
The plot is deceptively simple. A beautiful young woman mysteriously disappears while touring off the coast of Sicily. Though initially distressed at this loss, her lover and best friend fall in love, betray one another, and then make some hesitant moves toward reconciliation. Nowell-Smith demonstrates that Antonioni transformed this tale into an astoundingly profound meditation on romance, friendship, personal identity, women's autonomy, living in the modern world, even meaning itself.
The author also tells the fascinating history of the film's production (and how close Antonioni came to shutting down shooting before he completed the picture!) and its troubled, but ultimately enthusiastic, critical and popular reception. As an added treat, the volume closes with what Nowell-Smith considers the best essay written about Antonioni, a speech delivered in 1980 by the great critic Roland Barthes. In it, Barthes considers three features of Antonioni's work, "which to my mind constitute the artist: vigilance, wisdom, and, most paradoxical of all, fragility." --Raphael Shargel
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Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Director of the Joint European Filmography and editor of the Oxford History of World Cinema (1996).
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