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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is L’avventura (1960), one of the most acclaimed films from one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni. In this tribute to bourgeois ennui, an affluent Italian husband and wife with vacuous lives go on an island vacation, only for the wife to vanish without a trace. Where the hell did she go? The busband searches for her, but then becomes involved with another woman, and uhh, wait a minute, wasn’t there a mystery here? Hope they solve it. This is widely considered one of the best films of the 1960s, so we’ll give it a try.
Next is Walkabout (1971), a survival thriller set in the Australian outback. A man takes his two children out to the middle of nowhere, intending to kill them both, but shoots himself instead, leaving the kids to fend for themselves in the wilderness. They enlist the help of some of the local indigenous people and come to realize what a shithole Australia is. Director is Nicolas Roeg, whose David Bowie vehicle The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and horror film Don’t Look Now (1973) we previously watched. This is one of his best-regarded works.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- L’avventura: https://letterboxd.com/film/lavventura/
- Walkabout: https://letterboxd.com/film/walkabout/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- L’avventura: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4
- Walkabout: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/13868
CWs for L’avventura:
- A grown woman kisses a teenage boy.
- Implied sex.
- Nudity.
- Smoking
- Alcohol.
- Cheating.
CWs for Walkabout:
- Naked children. Not in a sexual context.
- In a different scene from the above, a man dances while being visibly erect.
- Cruelty to animals.
- Abusive parents.
- Suicide.
- Gun violence.
- Child abandonment.
- Children in peril.
- Blood and gore.
- Deaths of animals.
- Carnism.
- Bugs.
- Snakes.
- Cutting of flesh.
- Hanging.
- Death of parent.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Someone is watched without their knowledge.
- Dismemberment.
- Smoking.
- Alcohol.
- Corpses.
- Profanity.
- Sad ending.
Links to movies:
- L’avventura: https://tankie.tube/w/5TYiNgvXvwtm3y2ZHd3t13
- Walkabout: https://tankie.tube/w/noz59WTkLupLUZoCtJrTHP
