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L'Avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from a story he created. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing, which puts a focus on visual composition and character development, as well as for its unusual narrative structure. According to an Antonioni obituary, the film "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time."
The film was produced in 1959 on location in Italy under difficult financial and physical conditions. It made Monica Vitti an international star. It is the first of a "trilogy" by Antonioni, followed by La Notte (1961) and Eclipse (1962).