L'avventura
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: Audio commentary featuring film historian Gene Youngblood; Antonioni: documents and testimonials (a 58 minute 1966 documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi); Jack Nicholson reads essays by Antonioni ("L'avventura: a moral adventure"; "Reflections on the film actor"; Working with Antonioni); Olivier Assayas on L'avventura (analysis in three parts); Trailer; New English subtitle translation. Booklet features an essay by critic Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Director of photography, Aldo Scavarda ; production designer, Piero Poletto ; costume design, Adriana Berselli ; music by Giovanni Fusco ; editor, Eraldo da Roma.

Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams, Dorothy de Poliolo, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Enrico Bologna, Franco Cimino, Giovanni Danesi, Rita Molè, Renato Pinciroli, Angela Tommasi di Lampedusa, Vincenzo Tranchina.

Concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover and best friend. Antonioni's controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative in its own right.

After a young woman mysteriously disappears during a yachting party, her lover and best friend search for her, and fall in love in the process.

DVD format, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, monaural.

Italian dialogue; optional English subtitles.

Cannes International Film Festival, 1960: Special Jury Award.