For 10 points, identify this film starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari, and Monica Vitti which won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
In a press conference following this film's premiere, its director declared himself not to be a moralist and uninterested in resolving the "split between moral man and scientific man," before saying that this film's tragedy "stems directly from [a miserable] erotic impulse." A character in this film introduces herself as a 19-year-old married writer who writes in a trance while "usually in touch with the dead." That character, named Gloria Perkins, is discovered having sex with the main male character on a couch in the San Domenico Hotel at the end of this film, the final shot of which shows the male protagonist sitting on a bench with the female protagonist standing behind him and Mt. Etna (*) in the background. After being proposed to at the top of the Chiesa del Collegio, the main female character of this film rings the church bells in a famous scene. The plot of this film hinges on the disappearance of Anna during a sailing trip, and the subsequent romance between her lover Sandro and her best friend Claudia as they search for her. For 10 points, identify this film starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari, and Monica Vitti which won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
In a press conference following this film's premiere, its director declared himself not to be a moralist and uninterested in resolving the "split between moral man and scientific man," before saying that this film's tragedy "stems directly from [a miserable] erotic impulse."
L'avventura or The Adventure