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Line 56: ==Production== ===Filming=== Shooting began in August 1959 and lasted until 15 January 1960. Antonioni began filming the island sequence with the scenes immediately after Anna disappears. The majority of shooting on the island was filmed on the island Lisca Bianca (''white fish bone'') with a cast and crew of 50 people. Other locations for the island sequence included Panarea (which was the production's headquarters), Mondello and Palermo. Filming the island sequence was intended to take three weeks, but ended up lasting for four months. Difficulties included the islands being infested with rats, mosquitoes and reptiles; also, the weather was unexpectedly cold, and the navy ship hired to transport the cast and crew to the island every day never appeared. In order to carry personal items and equipment to the island, the crew had to build small rafts out of empty gas canisters and wooden planks; these were towed by a launching tug every morning.<ref name="Criterion. Youngblood">Criterion. Youngblood.</ref> Line 63 ⟶ 64: After completing the island sequence, filming continued throughout Sicily and Italy. The sequence on the train from Castroreale to Cefalù took two days to shoot instead of the intended three hours. The scene in Messina where Sandro encounters Gloria Perkins took two days to shoot; Antonioni initially wanted 400 extras for it. Only 100 turned up, so crew members recruited passers-by on the street to appear in the scene.<ref name="Criterion. Youngblood"/> The sequence where Sandro and Claudia visit a deserted town was shot in Santa Panagia, near Catania in Sicily; buildings there were commissioned by [[Benito Mussolini]], and were examples of [[fascist architecture]] of the ''[[Southern Italy|Mezzogiorno]]''. The scene where Sandro and Claudia first have sex took 10 days to shoot, owing to the crew having to wait for a train to pass by every morning.<ref name="Criterion. Youngblood"/> Antonioni wrote that the film was "expressed through images in which I hope to show not the birth of an erroneous sentiment, but rather the way in which we go astray in our sentiments. Because as I have said, our moral values are old. Our myths and conventions are old. And everyone knows that they are indeed old and outmoded. Yet we respect them".<ref>Criterion. ''L'avventura: A Moral Adventure''.</ref>▼ [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], [[American-International Pictures]], [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Warner Bros.]] refused the US distribution rights, so Antonioni sold the project to [[Columbia Pictures]].▼ ===Filming locations=== Line 119 ⟶ 116: ===Music=== The film's musical score was composed by [[Giovanni Fusco]], who had scored all of Antonioni's films up to that time. Antonioni usually only used [[diegetic music]] in his films and this was one of the latter times that he (briefly) included a musical score for scenes other than during the credits. For ''L'Avventura'', Antonioni asked Fusco to compose "jazz as though it had been written in the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenic era]]".<ref name="Criterion. Youngblood"/> ===Production notes=== ▲Antonioni wrote that the film was "expressed through images in which I hope to show not the birth of an erroneous sentiment, but rather the way in which we go astray in our sentiments. Because as I have said, our moral values are old. Our myths and conventions are old. And everyone knows that they are indeed old and outmoded. Yet we respect them".<ref>Criterion. ''L'avventura: A Moral Adventure''.</ref> ▲[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], [[American-International Pictures]], [[Paramount Pictures]] and [[Warner Bros.]] refused the US distribution rights, so Antonioni sold the project to [[Columbia Pictures]]. ==Release== | |||