L'avventura (1961) - Antonioni. A girl goes missing on a Yachting trip. The fiance and her girlfriend continue the search and fall in love. Some great cinematography and the first 90 minutes kept me enthralled, but I lost interest as the search moved to the mainland. The romance between the girlfriend and finance was tedious since neither was particularly interesting or likable. The high rating is for the amazing images. Rating ***
171. Panther Panchali (1955) - Ray. Story of a Apu born into a poor Bengali family in the 1920s. We follow his family, the father who is unemployed, the mother, the older daughter and Apu who is a small child. The first of a trilogy, the end shows them leaving the village for new life in the city A great, heartfelt film with people so real it feels like we're looking at a documentary. Rating ****
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