With introduction by Alexander Payne before the Tuesday, October 22, screening!

Alexander says: “An infinitely mysterious and seductive film, ‘L’avventura’ presented a new sense of film language to the world and established Antonioni as one of our greatest directors. It will forever seem modern, as will actress Monica Vitti.”

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. Her idle class lover and best friend – who are soon in bed with each other – embark on a search across Italy.

“More than any other film L’Avventura seems to define the spirit of a time in cinema when anything seemed possible and there was no territory into which it could not venture. Above all what it seeks to capture is the world of fleeting emotion, feelings which are unstable and crystallize only momentarily in the camera’s gaze.” — Geoffrey Nowell-Smith