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L'AVVENTURA(1960)

Today's movie; NYTimes1000Best; Antonioini; Monica Viti; booed in its Cannes debut, then won the Jury Award for Best Picture. Not much happens in this film but it does happen very slowly. A guy, a girl, and her best friend go for a ride on a boat. The girl disappears. Her guy and her best friend look for her. They have an affair which may be love. No one has any feelings until just at the end. There are a lot of other people equally as jaded and unfulfilled as the two seekers. They do sort of find each other. And so on.

In its time this kind of thing was in the air. It dates. Roger Ebert compares it to LA DOLCE VITA and makes the point that this is the flip side; LDV has juice; this is dry as a bone. It is somehow absorbing but only if your house is being cleaned and you can't leave the bedroom to take a break. I give it a 2outofNetflix5. And no picture. I am so tired of looking at these people that I won't take the trouble to Google them. Sorry.

Oh, They never find Anna the original girl friend. This is good as she was even more bored and boring than the two she left; or did she jump ship? I am looking forward to BLOWUP; other Antonioni best film. Yawn. Actually I saw BLOW UP and it was pretty good. A lot happens.