‘Extraordinary’ Italian movie star Monica Vitti dies at 90

Monica Vitti (AP Photo, File)

Monica Vitti, the versatile star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura and other Italian alienation movies of the 1960s, and later a leading comic actress, has died at the age of 90.

Her death was announced on Wednesday by a former culture minister, Walter Veltroni, who said he had been asked to communicate her death by her husband, photographer Roberto Russo.