"L'Avventura" and "Blow Up" are truly Antonioni's seminal works, that represent him and his ideas best. Hardcore fans may want more. Of "La Notte", Pauline Kael said "we see people for whom life has lost all meaning, but we are given no insight into why. They're so damned inert about their situation that I wind up wanting to throw stones at people who live in glass houses"