L'Avventura

Booed at its first screening at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura represents a famous and notorious event in the history of that forum – and also an interesting case in film criticism and history of world cinema. Critics and journalists, just like moviegoers, are entitled to their tastes, which may shift over time as a result of reevaluating a film from a new perspective or placing it in the broader context of the filmmaker's oeuvre.