La Dolce Vita vs. L'Avventura

Almost a day later and L'aaventura is winning "overall" while Vita has lead most of the other ones.

...which is how I feel about it. It's one of those ones which you don't even know how smooth it has worked on you a whole day after it's over. How do you spell cinema again?...

L'Avventura for me also and it's a crucial movie in the development of the form in what it "witholds" - there's so much unsaid, visually with negative spaces and thematically things you would have associated with novels and the printed word.....the "space" between the words to illuminate rather than reinforcing the obvious on the words - or going in a thematic direction you previously my have "wanted" from a film in the first place........

I can see why La Dolce vita wins screenplay, because I don't think anyone would claim L'Avventura is some serious wax poetic screenplay.


But I think L'Avventura is more enigmatic.   More things to sift and dissect.   More contemplative.    "Why did she do that?"  "What is going on here?" More behind the facade. There's also the social mores of the time period.   La Dolce vita is about society during its time period as well, and people within it, but I think it's less about how one affects the other - like L'Avventura.   And more about the spirit of the times.
 

But....I think it's just apples and oranges.   La Dolce vita does what it does really well, and L'Avventura does what it does very well.   Tho ultimately I think La Dolce vita is what you see what you get.   Not anything wrong with that, it's just that kinda movie.    It feels like an Italian Altman, so for the serious Altman guys on this board.... no he was not the original.   Fellini was ahead of him by a decade.



I guess I might choose La Dolce vita for screenplay, and direction is...... debatable, but the rest goes to L'Avventura.  

I much prefer La Dolce Vita. I'm a bigger fan of Antonioni than Fellini (though I like Fellini), but L'Avventura felt off to me, like a pointless Gilligan's Island or something. I love l'Eclisse.