I think you're right. In L'Avventura the disappearance of a woman
establishes an expectation in the viewer that the film's story will involve
a search for the woman (which, briefly, it does). The rest of the film is a
detour from this putative narrative. Actually, not even a detour since we
never return to the mystery of the lost woman,
Nicky hamlyn.
on 20/3/03 15:48, Damian Sutton at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I ask this just out of curiosity, since some of the suggestions of films
> whose narratives detour seem to me to be films in which the narrative is, in
> fact, a detour.
>
> Since many of the suggestions show a certain common understanding that
> detours are directions taken away from explicit ellipses, I just wondered
> how explicit a narrative has to be in order for its parenthesis to be
> considered a detour.
>
> When, for example, is a detour not narrative?
>
> (I quite like Nicky's "human pegs" mind)
>
> best
>
> Damian
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