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L'Avventura
L'avventura
1960 · Film · 144 min
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
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Ahh, time for a rambling ode to cinema of the days past and the Italian Cinema course I audited at Purdue from the incomparable Ben Lawton: Although I have admired Antonioni's great shots (l'Avventura is picture perfect, that final shot! And this one: https://kinorotterdam.nl/content/uploads/2022/04/Lavventura-10.png) and the head games of Bergman (I find The Silence to be the least suffocating among his films although I also like Fanny and Alexander, too) I've always been a Fellini person, since the day I watched La Dolce Vita. He can be over the top (e.g. Amarcord and Roma) but to this day I cannot watch the last sequence of Otto e mezzo without tearing up. Lawton also introduced me to Lana Wertmüller, who does not seem to be as well known as she deserves. If you have the chance, watch her controversial Swept Away.
My wife and I both love cinema, so we tried to get our son interested in it, to little effect ... until he started watching Criterion on his own. He started to watch Kurosawa's movies because they were "samurai movies" but got hooked! We're now having discussions about his characterizations in The Hidden Castle and other movies.
If you can spare some time I very strongly suggest to subscribe to Criterion streaming, at least for a few months ($10/mo in the US) to discover the old gems.
I love many of Werner's movies (and dislike a couple). He tends to root things in historical fact without going too far afield. His protagonists are usually realistically flawed and frequently outright unhinged (e.g. most of Kinski's roles). Many of his films have a uniquely lyrical character, and his taste in music usually coincides with my own. (If you hate the music a director chooses it often makes it hard to like his films). His documentaries (e.g. "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" or "Grizzly Man") feature unique and fascinating people, and Herzog digs deep into their stories.
It's okay to hate good films though. A big part of appreciating culture is learning to recognize when something is good, but not for you. e.g. Many go gaga for Antonioni's "L'Avventura". It may have done some pretty revolutionary things for film, but I hate it with a passion. I can't stand it's plot structure and loathe every one of it's characters. I recognize that it is a good film, but also that it's not for me.
Be careful to say, "I didn't like that film" instead of "That is a bad film because I didn't like it".