L'Avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni (director, screenwriter)
Elio Bartolini, Tonino Guerra (screenwriters)
Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1960 film. With the stamp of Promopress agency on the verso, along with manuscript pencil annotations.

A young woman disappears during a cruise in the Mediterranean, leading her lover and best friend to search for her. The first film in Antonioni's famed trilogy, followed by "La Notte" (1961) and "L'eclisse" (1962).

Shot on location throughout Italy, including in Rome, the Aeolian Islands, and Sicily.

7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus overall.

Criterion Collection 98. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.


[Book #150432]