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In Reply to: taking on L'Avventura posted by tunenut on March 19, 2005 at 12:59:24:
I love every minute of it. The mood, the tension, the loneliness... especially the loneliness and isolation. It is not for everyone. But if you love George De Chirico (and I do... a lot...), then L'Aventura will grab you.I love that period in Antonioni art, and you really MUST see all three great films from that period - L'Aventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse.
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is much more a Pollock, Stella, Newman...abstract. Antonioni completely shattered our expectations of what a film should/could be (like the Abstract artists) and moved the "action" from what happened on the screen to what happened within the viewer's perception and feelings.
That being said, I prefer his masterworks, "The Passenger" and "Blow-up." They are much more complex, complete and show a maturing. The 3 films you mentioned I think of as necessary steps, or studies. Brilliant ones, of course.
I was specifically talking about L'Avventura, not Antonioni in general, when I suggested my comparisson. Scenes towards the end are very much De Chirico-esque, in my opinion. But minor point, regardless.I agree that the three are the transitionary works, great as they are, and we already agreed before on the Passenger - I think it is the best film he made. I am much cooler towards the Blow-Up, but the Passenger is among the nest films ever made by anyone.
Here is an update. I have now gone through the entire movie with Gene Youngblood's commentary. He absolutely loves this movie and pointed out many subtleties that I would not have caught.I dug up the original New York Times review from 1961 and it captured my initial impressions pretty exactly. The reviewer was puzzled and not very impressed.
However, now armed with the knowledge of what Antonioni was doing scene by scene, I believe this will reward repeated viewings.
L'Eclisse just came out last week on a Criterion DVD, probably the same commentator. He does warn in this movie that by L'Eclisse, Antonioni had completely dropped all music and had cut back on dialogue as well. Eventually, I may be ready to give it a try.
The only Antonioni I had seen up to now was Blow Up and The Passenger. This is quite different from those of course.
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