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L'Avventura

Movie · 1960 · 145 min

A slow, unsettling drift through beautiful, empty places where desire and loss blur into quiet despair.

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1960 film by Michelangelo Antonioni
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Year
1960
Runtime
145 min
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Tone
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • love
  • betrayal
  • identity
  • loneliness
Places
  • sea
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by
Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini
Starring
Monica Vitti, Jack O'Connell, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dominique Blanchar, Lelio Luttazzi, Renzo Ricci, Esmeralda Ruspoli
Music
Giovanni Fusco
Cinematography
Aldo Scavarda
Runtime
145 min
Country
Italy, France
Languages
Italian

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