Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Greg Some Italian people in the 1960's get on a boat and ride to an island in the Mediterranean Sea. While they're there, they notice that one of their party - a rather bitchy, unpleasant woman - has disappeared. They spend the rest of the movie (more than two hours) looking for her. They never find her. The End.I would like to review this movie but I don't know if I can come up with ten lines about it. As with Antonioni's "Eclipse", I found it insanely boring. The characters seemed emotionally half-dead, idiotic, and without direction or moral purpose. I guess the point of the film is to show that such people exist. But for the viewer it's a little like going to a restaurant and being served cold, day-old oatmeal with the chef coming out to say, "I made this to prove that such a thing exists." Thanks, but . . that's not what I was hoping to eat for dinner tonight. Or any other night.

Lee Eisenberg "L'avventura" is the start of Michaelangelo Antonioni's unofficial trilogy about modernity and its discontents. That Anna's (Lea Massari) disappearance never gets solved highlights an important point: things do not always have a purpose. Sometimes, things just happen. It is amid this cynical outlook on life that Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) and Claudia (Monica Vitti) start up a relationship. Alienated by a world filled with excesses, they find only each other.I can't help but wonder if "L'avventura" influenced Terry Gilliam's movies. A frequent theme in his movies is the desire to escape our overly commercialized society (as seen in "Time Bandits" and "Brazil"). Whether or not it did, this is an undeniable masterpiece. Like Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni took Italian cinema in a direction that would ensure the production of some of the greatest movies. This is one that you should see.

disinterested_spectator Are people as weird in foreign countries as the movies that are made in those countries? If so, I am sure glad I live in America. "L'Avventura" would still have been a weird foreign film even if it had been shorter, but at least it would have been a better movie because there would have been less of it.A bunch of people get on a boat and end up on a small volcanic island. After they walk around for a while, they decide to leave and discover that Anna is missing. They search everywhere, but she is gone. There is only one possibility: she drowned and her body drifted out to sea with the tide. Of course, we can still wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or murder. But one thing is certain: she didn't just vanish into thin air.Wait a minute! What am I saying? This is a weird foreign film by Michelangelo Antonioni. When you enter the theater to watch one of these movies, you have to check your reason and common sense at the door, or it will just get in the way of experiencing existential wonder, if that's what you're into. So, of course she might just have vanished into thin air or teleported off the island or was abducted by aliens or whatever.In any event, Anna's friend, Claudia, and Anna's boyfriend, Sandro, don't have much reason and common sense either, because they leave the island and start looking for Anna. I mean, they actually think she might be wandering around Italy, visiting museums, staying at a hotel, or anything that someone might do who wasn't last seen on a small island with no way off except by boat.They recognize that she might have drowned, but that doesn't stop them from knocking off a quick piece, because though they just met, yet they are wildly in love with each other and just have to have some right in the middle of an open field. Of course, that doesn't stop Sandro from knocking off a quick piece the next day with some woman on the couch in the hotel lobby. When Claudia catches him, he cries. He shed not one tear for Anna, but this is different. No problem, because Claudia still loves him.And Anna? You mean you're still wondering what happened to her? What do you think this is, an American movie?

sunznc A tepid wandering film about a group of people boating to an island in Italy. One of the members of their party disappears and they search for her, bring in rescue to assist in the search. Later, the best friend of the girl who disappeared and the vanished girl's lover become sexually and romantically interested in each other.Not exactly a fascinating premise for a film. People have compared this to "The Passenger" but I see no comparison. "The Passenger" is fascinating, mesmerizing and really pulls you in to the journey. Here, we are reminded we are the audience watching these long, drawn out scenes that could have and should have been trimmed before the film was released. No wonder people started yelling at the film at Cannes. There is a dullness to the scenes and they linger way too long.Vitti shows conflict over her feelings for Sandro, the vanished girl's husband to be but so what? It isn't enough to keep people interested. In the final scene they both accept their fate. He's a playboy and she will accept all his flaws. Yawn, 2 1/2 hours later.