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Zabriskie Point (1970)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Antonioni's sorrowing, stranger's-eye view of modern America is sadly flawed by the way his 'story' (a rambling, jumbled and mumbling mess scripted by a variety of writers including Sam Shepard, Tonio Guerra and Claire Peploe) is bogged down in the mood of student revolt dogging the nation in the late '60s. Frechette, suspected of shooting a cop during a campus riot, steals a plane, meets Halprin, and makes love with her in Death Valley before returning to give himself up; she meanwhile goes off to meet prospective employer and capitalist pig Taylor. It's clear that the director's interest in America was less political than visual: the painted slogans and billboards seem important less for their content than for their appearance, just as the repeated metaphor of the desert is picturesque rather than telling. That said, the final explosion of a house and its contents in slow-motion is a dazzling, almost celebratory symbol of youthful dreams of ending consumerism.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Cast: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix, GD Spradlin, Kathleen Cleaver full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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