A group of wealthy Italians go for a cruise and decide to visit a deserted island. While exploring the island, a girl goes missing. Her boyfriend and best gal pal take it upon themselves to find her.
Sounds like a fairly decent first act to a what could be a great thriller.
Upon its premiere at the 1960 Cannes International Film Festival, Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece L’avventura was met with audible “Boo”-s.
What they were reacting to was the film’s apparent contempt for narrative. The mystery of the missing Anna is never resolved. What we as an audience are left with is the romance(?) of the two people searching for her.
While watching this film, one cannot help but think of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Serial killers aside, the films are strikingly similar. A female protagonist goes missing, her boyfriend and best friend (or sister) go looking for her, they fall in love.
It’s almost like Hitch was attempting to show that in the proper hands, this set-up could be quite the crowd pleaser. The catch is that both films were released in 1960. Neither filmmaker was aware of what the other was doing.
How do you say collective unconscious in Italian?
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