Sunday 8 September 2013

Avventura
[The Adventure]
(1960)

RATING:100%
FORMAT:Cinema

A lovelorn girl disappears from a remote island and the emptiness of her friends’ lives is revealed in their response. We are not sure if it is murder, suicide or a voluntary disappearance – although the boyfriend is very keen on solacing himself with her best friend within hours of her disappearance. Characters exist in a soulless limbo – unable to express respect since nothing they posses was actually earned – merely inherited.

None of the couples is happy and lack the smarts to discover a solution, as their life of ease has led to self regarding solipsism. The characters are hard to like but their decadence and lack of identity is supremely realistic. The view of Western marriage is especially bleak: Like the glittering mediocrities in La Dolce Vita, they only have each other – and that is not much.

A compelling study of contemporary, Western cultural alienation.

Posted by Frank TALKER™ at 14:25
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