“Words are becoming less and less necessary; they create misunderstandings.”
A wealthy listless young woman disappears during a boat trip around the rocky Mediterranean islands off Sicily. She is never heard from again; it is almost like she never existed at all. Her disaffected lover Sandro and best friend Claudia spend months trying to find her, but their relationship slowly devolves into a love affair fraught with guilt and tension.
Michelangelo Antonioni’s enigmatic L’Avventura premiered at Cannes in 1960 to…