L'Avventura (1960)
L'avventura (original title)

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Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | English

Release Date:

4 March 1961 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

A Aventura See more »

Filming Locations:

Aeolian Islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy See more »

Production Co:

Cino del Duca, Produzioni Cinematografiche Europee (P.C.E.), Societé Cinématographique Lyre See more »

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Runtime:

143 min  | West Germany: 102 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1

Trivia

At its premiere at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, this was booed so much to the extent that Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti fled the theater. However, after the second screening there was a complete turn around in how it was perceived and it was awarded the Special Jury Prize, going on to become a landmark of European cinema. See more »

Goofs

Crew or equipment visible: During the sequence in which Sandro and the newspaper reporter cross a street, the shadows of the camera and the crew are clearly and prolongedly visible on the actors and on the street surface. See more »

Quotes

Sandro: [Admiring the buildings of a small town from a roof top] Such imagination. Such movement. They were concerned with the architectural aesthetics. Such extraordinary freedom. I must go ahead and leave Ettore. I'd like to work on design again. I used to have ideas of my own, you know.
Claudia: Why did you stop?
Sandro: Why, why, why? Because it isn't easy to admit that a red floor suits a room when you are thinking exactly the opposite. But the lady wants it red. Because there is always a lady... or a man... and so... Once I was asked to make the estimate for the construction of a school. It took me a day and a half. I earned four million lira. So I went on giving estimates of other people's projects. Why are you looking at me this way?
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Connections

Referenced in "Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Money Programme (#3.3)" (1972) See more »