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"L'avventura" DVD
Guide Rating -
Pros • Undeniable masterwork of world cinema
• Stunning visual style
• Terrific special features on DVD
Cons • Difficult film to understand
• Deliberately paced
• Unconventional plot and character development
The Bottom Line - Michaelangelo Antonioni's masterwork fascinates and confounds


Product Description
Criterion Collection DVD of world cinema classic
Italian-language art-house movie
DVD has special features aimed at cinephiles


Guide Review
"L'avventura" DVD
"L'avventura" is Michaelangelo Antonioni's great 1960 Italian-language masterpiece of world cinema. Antonioni is first and foremost about images, and the Criterion Collection DVD preserves his images beautifully. In addition, the DVD provides an illuminating commentary by film critic Gene Youngblood and comes packaged with a second disc that contains unusual bonus materials of interest to film buffs. I love the "L'avventura" DVD set, and I've spent hours with it, gradually deepening my understanding of this wonderful, complex movie.
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