History Film / LAvventura

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Both Anna and later Claudia are attracted to Sandro. Also the young artist qualifies for a bad boy what with his painting of exclusively nude women.

** Anna in the beginning of the film to an extent. She refuses to dicuss with her father that Sandro is not going to marry her.

* DecoyProtagonist: Played with. In the runtime preceeding Anna's disappearance, both Anna and Claudia receive a fair share of the screen time. Anna still is the main character of that part and the interest in her drama is reinforced in her final scene with Sandro before she goes missing.

** Claudia reacts apathetically when Giulia and Goffredo passionally make out in front of her.

* GhostTown: Claudia and Sandro visit one of those during their searches for Anna. They discover it is abandoned some time after they arrive. [[spoiler:It works as an aphrodisiac because they have sex immediately after leaving the town in the grass near the railway.]]

* LiteralistSnarking: When Anna says that she does not feel Sandro any more, he asks whether she did not feel him the previous day at his home. Anna is indignant.

* MoodWhiplash Claudia makes a dance singing a song full of passion for Sandro in an hotel. He already looks bored.

* PricelessMingVase: An ancient vase is found on the island during the searche for Anna. Party members pass it to one another until Raimondo drops it, with predictable consequences, then reacts with DullSurprise.
* PrinceCharming: Goffredo the painter actually possesses a title of prince. Also he charms Giulia.

* TropeCodifier: For the big-style long(ish) arthouse film. It was proclaimed the second best film of all time by critics two years after its release.

* VisibleBoomMic: A reflection of a crew member can be seen in the end of the first scene on the back surface of the car which drives away Anna and Claudia.

* HumansAreDiplomats: Subverted by Anna's father who also lampshades this subversion. He says that he was a career diplomat for so many years that he was obliged to never say what he really thought, but now this obligation no longer exists.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Claudia confesses that in her childhood she did not have enough money.

* BelligerentSexualTension: In the scene where Claudia walks on the street of the Sicilian town alone the males gather in numbers and silently watch her. They don't make any aggressive advances however and then Sandro joins her.

%%* {{Bishonen}}: Goffredo, the young artist.

Two friends, Anna and Claudia (played by Creator/MonicaVitti), meet with Anna's boyfriend Sandro and go with other friends on a trip to a rocky island. While they were there, Anna disappears without a trace. The others start looking for her, but with exception of Claudia and Sandro, they show no particular interest in the result of the searches…

So… The movie has almost no plot. Yeah. That means it's not for everyone. The movie replaces plot with the beautiful sceneries, interesting CharacterDevelopment and of course, playing with the viewers' expectations.

As an aside note, the movie had one noticeable instance of VindicatedByHistory: When it was released, the public founded it so slow and boring that they '''booed it in Cannes.''' It was after a second screening, and a bunch of essays written by critics defending the movie, when they started to admire it more.

L'avventura is the first installment in Antonioni's trilogy of alienation that includes ''[[Film/{{Lanotte}} La notte]]'' (The Night, 1961), ''[[Film/{{Leclisse}} L'eclisse]]'' and (''The Eclipse'', 1962), all made in B&W. Sometimes ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' (The Red Desert, 1964) is included in this inofficial series making it a teralogy. Still the latter is in color and does not have a OneWordTitle. These films are made in a similar manner characteristic for the "slow cinema". They research the condition of the contemporary middle-class educated Europeans though L'avventura in particular rather concentrates on the upper-middle class. Also Creator/MonicaVitti stars in all of them, playing main characters in three films and a {{tritagonist}} in La notte.

** Gloria Perkins in the final part of the movie serves a Veronica for Claudia's Betty, reinforced by the fact that she too has a dark hair.
* {{Bishonen}}: Goffredo, the young artist.

** Anna in the beginning of the film to an extent, She refuses to dicuss with her father that Sandro is not going to marry her.

* BigNo: Claudia sings 'NO, no, non ti lascero' (Meaning "No, no, I won't leave you") to Sandro making a stress on the first NO. [[spoiler: She indeed doesn't leave him in the end when he betrays her with a girl of easy virtue.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: This is the plot of the movie.

* DecoyProtagonist: Anna who then gives way to Claudia. Played with. [[spoiler: In the runtime preceeding Anna's disappearance both Anna and Claudia receive a fair share of the screen time. Anna still is the main character of that part and the interest in her drama is reinforced in her final scene with Sandro before she goes missing.]]
* DesertedIsland: Lisca Bianca where Anna went missing. Actually it is populated by a solitary old man who lives in a hut.

* {{Determinator}} Sandro in his relation to Claudia until he conquers her. Much less afterwards. He also averts the trope in his relation to Anna which lasts already since long in the beginning of the film.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: As it was said above, the title makes allusions to both an adventure [[DontExplainTheJoke (perhaps ironically)]] and a fling (which is more precise).

** Patrizia in her turn shows that when Raimondo touches her breast. She only asks coldly whether he is disappointed with what he feels there.

* EndearinglyDorky: Goffredo who behaves awkward and clumsy. [[spoiler: However he is adorable enough to get a girl.]]

* ForeShadowing:
** Claudia in the hotel room sings 'NO, no, non ti lascero' (Meaning "No, no, I won't leave you"). [[spoiler:In the end she forgives Sandro and indeed stays with him.]]
** An example of this trope working within the author canon. The blonde Claudia once puts on a black wig which makes her closely resemble Valeria Gherardini, the character of {{Film/La Notte}}

* HalfwayPlotSwitch:
* HumansAreDiplomats: Subverted by Anna's father who also lampshades this subversion. He says that he was a career diplomat so for many years that he was obliged to never say what he really thought but now this obligation no longer exists.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Some of the scenes, especially the ending.

* LiteralistSnarking: When Anna says that she does not feel Sandro any more he asks whether she did not feel him the previous day at his home. Anna is indignant.

** Claudia sports it during her stay at Corrado's Villa Montaldo in Palermo

* NeverFoundTheBody: You never see Anna again, alive or dead. WordOfGod says that they shot the scene where the body of Anna was found in the water. However it was excluded due to the timing reasons.

** Corrado is implied to be an official who is present at various conferences. [[spoiler:Where he is unable to give up snarking]]
** Arguably Goffredo doesn't have much time to idle around because he produces numerous nude paintings.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: [[spoiler: After Anna vanishes the mood of this film irreversably shifts. Zigzagged because arguably some of her friends are indifferent to her disappearance and for them everything remains the same.]]

** Every character has only a name in the credits, no surnames are mentioned. Well, with the exception of Anna's father, who is only referred to as such.

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: What goes on between Patrizia and Raimondo who are together on the trip but are not lovers.

* PrettyInMink: Gloria Perkins at the party wearing a LittleBlackDress also carries a fur garment slung around her arm. It reinforces that she is TheVamp.
* PricelessMingVase: An ancient vase is found on the island during the searche for Anna. Party members pass it to one another until Raimondo drops it, with predictable consequences; then reacts with DullSurprise.
* PrinceCharming: Goffredo the painter who actually possesses a title of prince. Also he charms Giulia.
* PrincelyYoungMan: Also Goffredo because of his title.
* RagsToRiches: Sandro says he is this.
* RayOfHopeEnding: Several last shots of the last scene are that.

** The police interrogation of the smugglers which does not lead anywhere. [[spoiler:They quite probably indeed smuggle the goods into Italy on their boats but have nothing to do with Anna's disappearance.]]
** Also the following actions of Sandro who meets several people who tell him about a girl who might be the missing Anna. [[spoiler:Later all this is dropped.]].
* RevealShot: In Noto Claudia is shown in the close shot on the street under the stairs. A cut to the wider shot reveals that half a dozen men are watching her both on the same level and from the stairs. Then a further pan reveals that a whole crowd is observing her. A dialogue reveals that she is taken for French.

* SeductionProofMarriage: That of Patriza and Ettore as the wife is too bored and lacking in desire to commit adultery.
* SelfMadeMan: Sandro says he is this.

* ServileSnarker: Raimondo for Patrizia.
* UsefulNotes/{{Sicily}}: With all its implications. Ordinary people here are very socially conservative. They are hypnotised by a woman in modern clothes but definitely don't need tourists in bikini.

* TroubledButCute: Goffredo the young artist.
* UnkemptBeauty: Monica Vitti is at times this.
* UnnamedParent: Anna's father

* UntranslatedTitle
* TheVamp: Gloria Perkins qualifies for a a mild example.
* TropeCodifier: For the big-style long(ish) arthouse film. It even was proclaimed by the critics the second best film of all time two years after its release.

* WorldOfSnark: the trip party is this.
** In the end [[spoiler:Sandro cheats on Claudia with Gloria Perkins.]]

* PrettyInMink: Gloria Perkins at the party wearing a LittleBlackDress also carries a fur garment slung around her arm. It reinforces that she is {{TheVamp}}.

* PrettyInMink: Gloria Perkins at the party wearing a {{LittleBlackDress}} also carries a fur garment slung around her arm. It reinforces that she is {{TheVamp}}.

As an aside note, the movie had one of the most incredible instances of VindicatedByHistory: When it was released, the public founded it so slow and boring that they '''booed it in Cannes.''' It was after a second screening, and a bunch of essays written by critics defending the movie, when they started to admire it more.

* DecoyProtagonist: Anna who then gives way to Claudia. Played with. [[spoiler: In the runtime preceeding Anna's disappearance both Anna and Victoria receive a fair share of the screen time. Anna still is the main character of that part and the interest in her drama is reinforced in her final scene with Sandro before she goes missing.]]

* {{Determinator}} Sandro in his relation to Vittoria until he conquers her. Much less afterwards. He also averts the trope in his relation to Anna which lasts already since long in the beginning of the film.

* LoveHurts: Vittoria learns this almost immediately after falling in love with Sandro.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Giulia cheats on her snarky wealthy husband Corrado with a young painter Goffredo. Lampshaded as she remarks that her little heart beats like crazy [[spoiler:as she is about to give in to Goffredo.]].
** Subverted with Patrizia who travels with Raimondo but in fact remains faithful to her husband Ettore, the chief of Sandro. More out of lack of desire and general apathy than because of fidelity as she does not sleep in one bed with her husband.

* {{Adorkable}}: Goffredo who behaves awkward and clumsy. [[spoiler: However he is adorable enough to get a girl.]]

Film/AboutElly by Creator/AsgharFarhadi was clearly influenced by this film while not qualifying for a remake.

* {{Adorkable}} Goffredo who behaves awkward and clumsy. [[spoiler: However he is adorable enough to get a girl.]]
* {{Adventure}} [[spoiler: Subverted. The movie has nothing to do with this particular genre.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Anna, the brunette, is Veronica. She is clearly edgier than the sweet and tender Claudia, the blonde, who is Betty.

--->'''Giulia:''' Now what do I have to do to be left in peace?
--->'''Claudia:''' I think all you have to do, Giulia, is to close the door.

* DeadpanSnarker: Almost every secondary character in the movie, Claudia is not, curiously Sandro is also not the best example of that. Sandro might be evil at times but he doesn't often make snarky remarks. Patrizia and Raimondo as well as Corrado are frequently this. Also a drugstore assistant and his wife.

--->'''Sandro:''' And aren't you pleased?... That way you'll have a new kind of adventure.

* NonIdleRich: An interesting subverion of the wildspread stereotype of the film. While on the trip many characters might appear bored and stricken by the upper-class ennui in regular life some of them actually work.
** Sandro might have sold out and given up his high artistsic dreams but his boss recognises that he cannot do without his calculations. His work makes him rich, he confesses to own several appartments but it resulted from work, catering to the preferences of the tasteless bourgeois. Which pays.
** Corrado is implied to be an official who is present at various conferences. [[spoiler: Where he is unable to give up snarking]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Sandro retains his current job only due to that reason. It does not satisfy his creatrive urges.

** Every character has only a name in the credits, no surnames are mentioned. Well, with the exception of the Anna's father who is only referred to as such.
** Subverted in the sole case of Gloria Perkins, an aspiring actress who arrived from the USA. [[spoiler: That proves to be a bad sign as she seduces Sandro]]
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: What goes on between Patrizia and Raimondo who are together on trip but are not lovers.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Giulia says exactly that to Claudia when Giulia is going to the room of the young artist passionately in love with her. Claudia only reluctantly agrees. [[spoiler: Soon after they arrive to the room Giulia says LeaveMeAlone as the passion of the artist ignites her too.]]

* PricelessMingVase: The ancient vase is found on the island during the searches for Anna. Party members pass it on one to another until Raimondo drops it with predictable consequences then reacts with the DullSurprise.
* PrinceCharming: Goffredo the painter who actually possesses a title of the prince. Also he charms Giulia.

** The police interrogation of the smugglers which does not lead anywhere. [[spoiler: They quite probably indeed smuggle the goods into Italy on their boats but have nothing to do with Anna's disappearance.]]
** Also the following actions of Sandro who meets several people who tell him about a girl which might be the missing Anna. [[spoiler: Later all this is dropped.]].
* RevealShot: In Noto Claudia is shown in the close shot on the street under the stairs. A cut to the wider shot reveals that half a dozen of men are watching her both on the same level and from the stairs. Then a further pan reveals that a whole crowd is observing her. A dialogue reveals that she is taken for a French.

* SleepingSingle Patrizia and Ettore sleep not only in different beds but also in different rooms.

** Zigzagged with Claudia who also sees this trend towards the cynical flank in herself and is very much ashamed of that. She tries to improve her ways with mixed results.
* {{Socialite}}: Gloria Perkins implies that she is the one though it is hinted that she is something else.
* TitleDrop: Sandro to Claudia when she reproaches him that he now seems entirely different person than before to her. He answeres that it is for the better because that makes for a new adventure.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: It emerges between Claudia and Sandro after Anna disappears while they search for her or simply aimlessly roam the island. [[spoiler: It is resolved VERY soon by their kiss.]]

* WardrobeMalfunction: A rip in the skirt of Gloria Perkins
* WhenIWasYourAge: Sandro mentions this to a student whose architectural drawing he has just deliberately destroyed spilling an inkpot all over it. When the student comes up to him Sandro asks his age and when a student replies "23" says that at that age he fought so many time the student would not even think about it. The scene ends peacefully.

** Giulia cheats on her snarky wealthy husband Corrado with a young painter Goffredo. Lampshaded as she remarks that her little heart beats like crazy [[spoiler: as she is about to give in to Goffredo.]].

** In the end [[spoiler: Sandro cheats on Claudia with Gloria Perkins.]]

* GhostTown: Claudia and Sandro visit one of those during their searches for Anna. They discover it is abandoned some time after they arrive. [[spoiler: It works as an aphrodisiac because they make sex immediately after leaving the town in the grass near the railway.]]
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Claudia appears the most sympathetic character however she confesses once that while previously she would like to find Anna and was horrified that she would not be found now she is horrified that Anna would be found. Other characters are visibly more cynical. [[spoiler: some of them even suppose that Sandro might have knocked off Anna.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch
* HumansAreDiplomats: Subverted by Anna's father who also lampshades this subversion. He reports that when he was a career diplomat so for many years he was oblidged to never tell what he thought but now this obligation no longer exists.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sandro is the one of epic proportions. Once he destroys a technical drawing of an architecture student.

* LikesOlderWomen: Goffredo insistently tries to seduce Giulia. [[spoiler: He succeeds.]]

* LoveHurts: Vittoria learns it nearly immediately after falling in love with Sandro.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Old Man on the Island is credited in this way. Might be due to ValuesDissonance because in the movie dedicated to the upper-class characters a poor islander couldn't receive a name.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Claudia is taken for a Frenchwoman in the conservative Italian south
* FirstKiss: Between Claudia and Sandro happens too soon after the disappearance of Anna.

** Claudia in the hotel room sings 'NO, no, non ti lascero' (Meaning "No, no, I won't leave you"). [[spoiler: In the end she forgivens Sandro and indeed stays with him.]]
** An example of this trope working within the author canon. The blonde Claudia once puts on a black wig which makes her closely resemble Valeria Gherardini, the character of {{Film/La notte}}

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Old Man on the Island is credited in this way. Might be due to {{ValuesDissonance}} because in the movie dedicated to the upper-class characters a poor islander couldn't receive a name.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Old Man on the Island is credited in this way. Might be die to {{ValuesDissonance}} because in the movie dedicated to the upper-class characters a poor islander couldn't receive a name.

* CryingWolf: Anna while swimming starts to cry that a shark is near. Then when everyonу is back on board the shark is nowhere to be seen. Most probably she was reproducing this trop craving for attention. After her disappearance other characters make suggestions about her motives.
* TheCynic: Sandro. When Claudia notes to him that he appears another person he replies that is only for good because it would make a new adventure.

* DarknessInducedApathy: For Claudia in the end as she says that everything becomes so damned easy. Even the suffering.

* ManChild: Sandro.

* CryingWolf: Anna while swimming starts to cry that a shark is near. Most probably she was reproducing this trop. After her disappearance other characters make suggestions about her motives.

* DullSurprise: Raimondo is unconcerned when he drops the ancient vase so that it breaks.

* ForeShadowing: Claudia in the hotel room sings 'NO, no, non ti lascero' (Meaning "No, no, I won't leave you"). [[spoiler: In the end she forgivens Sandro and indeed stays with him.]]

* OnlyOneName: Every character has only a name in the credits, no surnames are mentioned. Well, with the exception of the Anna's father who is only referred to as such.

* PricelessMingVase: The ancient vase is found on the island during the searches for Anna. Party members pass it from one to another until Raimondo drops it with predictable consequences then reacts with the DullSurprise.

* RedHerring: The police interrogation of the smugglers which does not lead anywhere. [[spoiler: They quite probably indeed smuggle the goods into Italy on their boats but have nothing to do with Anna's disappearance.]]
** Also the following actions of Sandro who meets several people who tell him against a girl which might be the missing Anna. [[spoiler: Later this all is dropped.]].
* RevealShot: In Noto Claudia is shown in close shot on the street under the stairs. A cut to the wider shot reveals that half a dozen of men watch her both on the same level and from the stairs. Then a further pan reveals that a whole crowd is observing her. A dialogue reveals that she is taken for a French.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Most characters are firmly on the cynical end of the scale.

* TitleDrop: Sandro to Claudia when she reproaches him that he now seems entirely different person to her. He answeres that it is for the better because that makes for a new adventure.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Sandro retains his curreent job only due to that reason. It does not satisfy his creatrive urges.

* TheJerk: Sandro is the one of epic proportions. Once he destroys a technical drawing of an architecture student.

* NeverFoundTheBody: You never see Anna again, alive or dead. Main/WordOfGod says that they shot the scene where the body of Anna was found in the water. However it was excluded due to the timing reasons.

* PricelessMingVase: The ancient vase is found on the island during the searches for Patricia. Party members pass it from one to another until Raimondo drops it with predictable consequences.