“The Coded and the Clothes:” Transitioning dualities in a scene from L’Avventura

  Dual personalities and alter egos are devices used relatively often within the cinematic realm. With L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni constructs an existentialist world predicated on the metaphorical transitioning from one character to another, doing so in a subversive manner the dualities and the “replacement” of a central figure thrive under a narrative guise. AnnaContinue reading ““The Coded and the Clothes:” Transitioning dualities in a scene from L’Avventura”