L'avventura (Criterion) DVD

• Digital transfer with restored picture and sound, enhanced for 16x9 televisions
• Audio commentary by film historian Gene Youngblood
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Optional image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
• "Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials," a 58-minute documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi
• Writings by Antonioni, read by Jack Nicholson, plus Nicholson's personal recollections of the director
• Original theatrical trailer
• Restoration demonstration
• A reprint of Antonioni's statements about "L'Avventura," circulated after the film's premier at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and a new essay by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci

A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni's penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love. Criterion is proud to present this milestone of film grammar in a new Special Edition double-disc set.