Michelangelo Antonioni - L'Avventura

The third masterpiece in the Tribute To Antonioni Series. This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. This DVD version features stunning new digital transfer with restored picture and soundtrack.

Martin Scorsese wrote about the death of Antonioni at age 94. He said that the film “gave me one of the most profound shocks I've ever had at the movies. ... [It] changed my perception of cinema and the world around me and made both seem limitless…" it was his images that I knew, much better than the man himself. Images that continue to haunt me, inspire me. To expand my sense of what it is to be alive in the world.”


A Masterpiece Time Magazine

Original...visually stunning Newsweek

L’Avyentura is one of Antonioni's finest films, and a landmark TV Guide

His masterpiece NY Times

In May 1960, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura was the sensation of the Cannes film festival The Guardian 2007


Halliwell's Film Guide declared that Antonioni's first critical success L'Avventura, made him "a hero of the highbrows," in 1962.

L'Avventura was runner-up in Sight and Sound's poll of the top ten films of all time, coming closer than anything else in four runnings of the event to toppling Citizen Kane from its decennial perch.

Another of Antonioni’s films ‘La Notte’ has had amazing DVD sales for Eureka sparking immense interest in this legendary director.


Format: DVD9 PAL / Dolby digital / All regions / Black & White
Originally Released: 1950
Aspect: Widescreen 1.85:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
Rating: PG
Sub titles: English
Language: Italian