It's been released in various incomplete forms and is still incomplete -- actually one significant scene is left out that ties into the final frenzy of everyone kind of spinning around like tops -- it is truly Shakespearean. It's funny and tragic at the same time --
"L'Avventura"holds a mirror up to society with the same idea of the exposing the facile oblivion in the lives of the very rich. Many hated that movie when it was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In visually showing the bereft monotony of the elite, it was necessarily stark with an ominous bleakness. Renoir disguised his commentary on the society he was very much involved with himself in farcical humor. Both kind of hit the same note in displaying a kind of heartless cavorting.