of communication barriers in a stark, contemporary world. Monica Vitti plays
a fickle young woman who meets a handsome, passionate stockbroker (Alain
Delon) just hours after leaving her lover. The brief relationship begins to fall
apart when the couple takes it, and themselves, too seriously. The eerie and
entrancing tale of alienation is essential Antonioni viewing.
Monica Vitti and Richard Harris as doomed
lovers. Vitti's character falls for a factory
worker (played by Harris) employed by
her husband. The film is set against a
sterile, industrial landscape and is an
intriguing study of spiritual desolation.
It focuses on the desire to return to a
more nostalgic era in a present where
people can no longer communicate
in meaningful ways. Beautifully
photographed, the painterly
landscape of abandoned and
doomed industries provides
the bleak, desperate
backdrop for isolation.
existential trilogy, The Adventure is
Antonioni's perceptive study of the
alienation and despair suffered by a group
of vacationing friends after a young woman
disappears from their party. The film is not
just about frustration, disappointment, and
ennui, but also dares to force these feelings
upon its own viewers. This modernist classic
won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1961.