L’Avventura (1960)

L’Avventura (1960)by Michelangelo Antonioni is a beautifully composed film; dreamlike is how I’d describe it. A group of upper-class eurotrash take their yacht out for a spin around the Greek isles. They stop to explore one of the small islands and after a quarrel with her detached lover one of the young girls goes missing. They never find the her. Her lover (the male) and her friend (female, maybe also her lover) continue looking for the girl, following clues and mysterious sightings, at first hating each other, then falling for each other, and at last revealing to each other their true identities, which of course, leaves their relationship a scruffy dog in an alley stealing food and dodging kicks.I could go on with some analysis of this movie, but it’s so beautifully filmed and the characters so dynamic that I’ll leave it open for discussion later.