"L'Avventura" gave me one of the most profound shocks I've ever had at the movies, greater even than "Breathless" or "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (made by two other modern masters, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, both of them still alive and working). Or "La Dolce Vita." At the time there were two camps, the people who liked the Fellini film and the ones who liked "L'Avventura." I knew I was firmly on Antonioni's side of the line, but if you'd asked me at the time, I'm not sure I would have been able to explain why. I loved Fellini's pictures and I admired "La Dolce Vita," but I was challenged by "L'Avventura." [Scorsese on Antonioni's expanding worlds.]
