Three Reasons: L'avventura

Those are our Three Reasons. What are yours?
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[@Mikeburkeable]

Monica Vitti is reason enough.

[@garrison6863]

That last shot is so well chosen. One of the keys to the film is the character of Sandro, who is a handsome, charming engine of destruction. That scene helps tell us why. He is ruining the architectural sketch of a young man because he himself sold out his youthful occupational dreams for money.

[@futuropasado]

One of the most important films ever made. Modern cinema starts here even more than with Godard or Truffaut. Antonioni's poetic vision of modern society with so few words influenced Tarkovsky's cinema for sure and many french filmmakers in the nouvelle vague.

[@Onmysheet]

Monica Vitti just radiates every scene she appears in, I can't take my eyes off her!

[@thevoid99]

1. monica vitti 2. antonioni 3. its evocative portrait of alienation.

[@davibarros5551]

This film changed eveything to me, I love how it is poetic, Vitti's performance, the landscapes and the haunting feeling of this film. My personal favorite Antonioni (also masterpieces: L'eclisse, Red Desert, Blow up, The Passenger and La notte).

[@riccardoalcaro8483]

and Il grido

[@waynej2608]

He was a master. You've mentioned some fine films, classics all. My personal favorite is La Notte. That one of course, features both Vitti and the truly wonderful, Jeanne Moreau. I really love The Passenger too. One of Jack Nicholson's best performances, subtle, restrained. Brilliant.

[@giorgioferlisi7758]

None like Antonioni can tell us about the emptiness of human existence, and human relations. None like him can tell us how lost people are. Men and women at total mercy of their feelings and sensations and incapable of understanding them. Aristotele said: know yourself. Antonioni showed us how far we are from knowing ourselves. And how pathetic we are. After 2 hours of watching his movies I would not have been displeased if a stranger had appeared and shot me in the head....

[@xskip]

1,2,&3: Monica Vitti

[@jacobharris4838]

1. The cinematography 2. The closed loop ending 3. The overture

[@garrison6863]

One of the great sound films. Antonioni's prior films had been good, like Il Grido, but in this film he really grew into a whole new revolutionary style of film making. The best way to describe it would be to say that he used film as if he was a master novelist e.g. Henry James. He could draw your eye to a certain place on the screen through his chiaroscuro lighting, bring out meanings through the choreography of a shot, and explore character like very few directors before him.

[@Agos226]

"a deep film about shallow people"

[@hamzarouri8454]

I love this film. It manged to be really compelling on how mundane it was. And it stuck with me.

[@mariminu8819]

Sicilian landscape, Monica Vitti, what else?

[@shantihealer]

You had L' Aventura and Psycho both come out in the same year. Both were predicated on the unexpected and abrupt disappearance of the main character, the 'heroine', about a third of the way through. In Psycho's case that disappearance is a murder and integral to the whole story. But in L' Aventura that disappearance is a MacGuffin. It get the action going and brings together the other two main characters. They soon drop their concern for the missing girl and so do we. Their subsequent meanderings through Sicily and psychologically and sexually with each other make for fascinating viewing. But it's a bit frustrating because we had to slog through the first hour, and a bit more, that turns out in retrospect to have been a wild goose chase. Nowadays I only watch the second part of L' Aventura, after the return to the mainland. It then becomes a manageable movie to watch in terms of length, character study and story interest. So, BEWARE THE MACGUFFIN!

[@smashingbullet]

La photographie est sublime.

[@joepossejlg3162]

tree fantasquique monsieur...monika thats all folks...folky

[@jacobharris4838]

Just ordered it, can't wait to watch it for the first time

[@Agos226]

How did you like it

[@jacobharris4838]

Ben Roley it’s fantastic of course. Blow up and the passenger just as great

[@joshmaxin7188]

1. Anna 2. Vitti and Ferzetti 3. The Beauty in every shot

[@shahyarghanbari7267]

The Modern Cinema starts, Right there !...MAESTRO : MICHELANGELO...“May 15, 1960.”

[@jakespivey3716]

RIP Monica Vitti

[@sourav8570]

1. Monica Vitti 2. Monica Vitti 3. Monica Vitti

[@duongngo602]

Pure art

[@samfilmkid]

It’ll never happen, but….this movie would be AMAZING in IMAX

[@Jake-kn3xg]

Blowup blu-ray soon?

[@dantradingalerts1292]

Just ordered a bunch of criterions - Roma netflix movie, a bunch of altman movies and this. These are some well put blu ray packages - please keep it up

[@MrRazorblade999]

Hopefully Criterion will soon release Antonioni's The Passenger.

[@onezkyrideRO]

that would be amazing. Add Blow-Up to the collection too.

[@waynej2608]

I wonder if they have yet. I must check, as I adore that film, and have not seen it in twenty years.

[@MrRazorblade999]

@@waynej2608 I'm afraid not

[@waynej2608]

@@MrRazorblade999 Well, that's unfortunate. Ty.

[@lemanchon]

Jorge❤

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

i think i like The Red Desert more but still beautiful film

[@DG-gx4sg]

Three Reasons: 1. Monica Vitti 2. Monica Vitti 3. Monica Vitti

[@riccardoalcaro8483]

spot on on the first point, but it's the absent character the modern woman, not Monica Vitti's character!

[@ahura_7000]

🥂

[@LorFire]

The shots were beautiful and the locations, first 20 mins was good and then the rest of the 2 hours was painful

[@georgeaye7535]

Maybe that says more about you? Why not watch a flick with explosions and "hot babes" instead?

[@LorFire]

@@georgeaye7535 shut the fuck up you pompous prick, duss out fam

[@georgeaye7535]

@@LorFire Your command of English is about as good as your film critique.

[@FrannKushh]

Monica Vitti looks a lot like my ex

[@JohnnyCatFitz]

I've never seen it so don't hate on me but I can see Caye Blanchette in a remake.

[@randywhite3947]

Who’s Caye Blanchette?