L’AVVENTURA directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy, 1960)
Where has Monica Vitti been all my life?
I am at a loss to explain how I’ve reached mature adulthood without ever seeing her in a movie before.
This is all the more shameful as this constitutes a neglect of classic Italian cinema which, having lived in the country for 16 years, is indefensible.
I now pledge to put this right by ravaging my local ‘mediateca’.
In L’Avventura, Vitti as Claudia looks so thoroughly modern and fills the screen in this curious, but pretty great Antonioni movie. In one scene she is waiting outside a hotel in a small town and gets surrounded by a horde of horny men trying to catch her eye. She remains coolly aloof throughout this ordeal. Continue reading
