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Mr Bongo Films presents another masterpiece from it’s tribute series to Michelangelo Antonioni. Antonioni won 35th Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Films Festival in 1982, and was nominated for a Golden Palm.
Antonioni is the renowned Academy Award Nominee director of classic film BLOW UP. As well as Winner of the 1951 Silver Ribbon at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.
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 Antonioni's L’AVYENTURA “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.
DVD9 PAL. Dolby digital.
All regions.
Black & White 1950. Widescreen 1.85:1
Running Times: 143 minutes
Rating: PG
Sub titles: English
Language: Italian