Passes the Bechdel test
L'Avventura
1961. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, written by Michelangelo Antonioni and Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find that Anna has gone missing. Anna's boyfriend Sandro and friend Claudia try unsuccessfully to find her. While they are searching, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers and all but forget about the missing Anna.
- Released
- 04 Mar 1961
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- IMDb
- 7.7 / 10
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards. 7 wins & 12 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Sandro 172 lines, man
- Claudia 150 lines, woman
- Patrizia 64 lines, woman
- Corrado 50 lines
- Giulia 44 lines, woman
- Anna 41 lines, woman
- Marshal 17 lines, woman
- Sailor 16 lines
- Raimondo 15 lines, man
- Zuria 15 lines, man
Full cast, 20 people
- Monica Vitti as Claudia
- Gabriele Ferzetti as Sandro
- Lea Massari as Anna
- Dominique Blanchar as Giulia
- Renzo Ricci as Anna's Father
- James Addams as Corrado
- Dorothy De Poliolo as Gloria Perkins
- Lelio Luttazzi as Raimondo
- Giovanni Petrucci as Prince Godfrey
- Esmeralda Ruspoli as Patrizia
- Enrico Bologna
- Franco Cimino
- Giovanni Danesi as Photographer
- Rita Molè
- Renato Pinciroli as Zuria, the Journalist
- Angela Tommasi Di Lampedusa as Princess
- Vincenzo Tranchina
- Valeria Perri as Martina
- Prof. Cucco as Ettore (uncredited)
- Jack O'Connell as Old Man on the Island (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
ANNA: I'm sorry ... but I can't help laughing... GIULIA: It's as smooth and slick as oil.
CLAUDIA: Did you sleep well? ANNA: Yes, fairly well. But I went to bed last night planning to do some thinking about a number of things ... instead, I fell asleep. CLAUDIA: I didn't know one could sleep so well on a yacht. It lulls you ... ANNA: It would be better for you to get some sun.
CLAUDIA: Oh, no... please... not here. It looks too dangerous. GIULIA: At one time the Aeolian isles were all volcanoes.
CLAUDIA: Stop ... stop the boat! GIULIA: How's the water?
PATRIZIA: I have never understood the islands. With all that water around them, poor things ... ANNA: When do you have to go back?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 57 are women's.
355 lines from women, 271 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 6 men in the cast. 4 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 27 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 54% of the words (4,330), men 46% (3,720). Women have 57% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
38
Two men
7
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 11 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 12% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Michelangelo Antonioni (man)
- Written by
- Michelangelo Antonioni (man), Tonino Guerra (man), Elio Bartolini (man)
- Story by
- Michelangelo Antonioni (man)
- Produced by
- Amato Pennasilico (gender not listed)
- Shot by
- Aldo Scavarda (man)
- Edited by
- Eraldo Da Roma (man)
- Music by
- Giovanni Fusco (man)
- Production design by
- Piero Poletto (man)
- Costumes by
- Adriana Berselli (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Sound
0 women, 2 men, 4 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 4 men
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Production
0 women, 0 men, 5 not listed
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Writing
0 women, 4 men
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Camera
0 women, 3 men
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
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Art
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 30 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Lea Massari 27, Monica Vitti 28, Esmeralda Ruspoli 32, Dominique Blanchar 33
Men
Giovanni Petrucci 19, Gabriele Ferzetti 35, Lelio Luttazzi 37, Renzo Ricci 60
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 745 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
