L'AVVENTURA

Claudia (Monica Vitti) joins her friend Anna and Anna’s boyfriend, Sandro, for a yacht trip to the Aeolian Islands. When Anna mysteriously disappears, Claudia and Sandro’s search plunges them into an unpredictable relationship that zigzags through the human condition.

In the shifting debates over the greatest films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 L’Avventura is a familiar pillar of majesty, an existential drama whose cinematic language continues to spark fresh discourse. From the lyrical cinematography by Aldo Scavarda to a slow-burn plot that emphasizes the loneliness of its characters and offers little narrative resolution, Antonioni’s masterpiece feels timeless.

Join author Sean Wilsey (Oh the Glory of It All) for a chat honoring this monument of art-house cinema.