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L'avventura /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC2412BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Italian Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 98.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]Description: 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781604658934
1604658932

Uniform titles:

Avventura (Motion picture)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .A98 2014

Production credits:

Director of photography, Aldo Scavarda ; production designer, Piero Poletto ; costume design, Adriana Berselli ; music by Giovanni Fusco ; editor, Eraldo da Roma.

Awards:

Cannes International Film Festival, 1960: Special Jury Award.

Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams, Dorothy de Poliolo, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Enrico Bologna, Franco Cimino, Giovanni Danesi, Rita Molè, Renato Pinciroli, Angela Tommasi di Lampedusa, Vincenzo Tranchina.Summary: Concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00540 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050315590

Special features: Audio commentary featuring film historian Gene Youngblood; Antonioni: documents and testimonials (a 58 minute 1966 documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi); Jack Nicholson reads essays by Antonioni ("L'avventura: a moral adventure"; "Reflections on the film actor"; Working with Antonioni); Olivier Assayas on L'avventura (analysis in three parts); Trailer; New English subtitle translation. Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Antonioni's statements about the film after its 1960 Cannes Film Festival premiere, and an open letter distributed at the festival.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (1.77:1); monaural ; requires Blu-ray player.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

Italian dialogue; optional English subtitles.

Cannes International Film Festival, 1960: Special Jury Award.

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