L'Avventura

L'Avventura (1960) starring Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari. A small group of idle rich arrive on a deserted Mediterranean island for a lark, only to find excitement when one of their group (Massari) disappears. The rest of the film is ostensibly about the search for the missing woman, except that it soon branches off into a romance between her boyfriend (Ferzetti) and her friend (Vitti). The commentary track on this DVD makes the case that it is a great film, but I couldn't quite see it. It's certainly an interesting film, but I predict that most American viewers won't like it much. It's in Italian, with English subtitles. Grade: B