Girl goes missing, everybody’s indifferent. Even her friends ease their stress with a throwaway romantic fling. The real world is full of mysteries unsolved. The world of movies is full of mysteries that are solved. The movies have got it all wrong, so says director Michelangelo Antonioni here. He takes it slow and wanders through the story, but he does so with confidence. Monica Vitti’s intimidatingly gorgeous face seems to be one of his muses. Mediterranean island life and upper class boredom are some of the others. At its premiere in Cannes, this was legendarily booed and then it went on to win of one of the festival’s top prizes, which is about right for a film that was at the forefront of the day’s art cinema. It moves to its own weird rhythm and buries its melody under longing gazes and the clumsy flailing of amateur detectives who don’t have a single decent clue.