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At its 1960 premiere, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura outraged the audience with its disregard for established film language and dissociated approach to romance. In making a film of this type, Antonioni embraced postmodernism, a defining philosophical movement of the 20th century and beyond. In this essay, I explain postmodernism's origins and how the outlook relates to one of cinema's crown jewels.