L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
The profoundly sad closing moments of L'Avventura center around one important decision: to make a connection or to stay separate and apart. In the moment that Monica Vitti's hand lingers behind Gabrielle Ferzetti's head lasts a lifetime and aches with melancholy. Finally she touches him, she bares herself to try to reconnect but it is no use. Antonioni cuts to a wide shot, emphasizing their distance from each other and the world around them.
And with that culmination, he ends perhaps the cinema's most moving statement about alienation. It is heartbreaking.
The profoundly sad closing moments of L'Avventura center around one important decision: to make a connection or to stay separate and apart. In the moment that Monica Vitti's hand lingers behind Gabrielle Ferzetti's head lasts a lifetime and aches with melancholy. Finally she touches him, she bares herself to try to reconnect but it is no use. Antonioni cuts to a wide shot, emphasizing their distance from each other and the world around them.
And with that culmination, he ends perhaps the cinema's most moving statement about alienation. It is heartbreaking.
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