You don't have to be familiar with Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura to suspect this goofy American trailer isn't an accurate reflection of the film:
This is a bizarre attempt to literalize Antonioni's abstractions, to make it look like he'd made some sort of simple-minded melodrama instead of an exploration of ennui.
I'm posting this trailer instead of actually, I don't know, writing something about Antonioni's death because his loss, like that of Ingmar Bergman, helps bring to an end a great period of filmmaking, when the concept of Cinema-As-Art exploded into a worldwide conscience, when anything seemed possible. A Heroic Age of filmmaking, and filmgoing, long gone, and now, finally, dead.
