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      Zabriskie Point

      R Released Feb 9, 1970 1h 52m Drama List
      66% Tomatometer 32 Reviews 74% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings A fugitive campus radical (Mark Frechette) steals a plane and meets a secretary (Daria Halprin) in Death Valley. Read More Read Less

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      Richard Brody New Yorker A daring and flamboyant blend of fiction and documentary... Jun 6, 2022 Full Review Kate Muir Times (UK) Zabriskie Point is a both a thriller and a doped-out dream-capsule of the revolutionary hippy movement in California. Rated: 4/5 Oct 23, 2014 Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies A maligned masterpiece. Rated: 5/5 Oct 23, 2014 Full Review David Elliott Chicago Daily News Zabriskie Point sums up all that it means to be really ignorant of what is happening in this country. The new Michelangelo Antonioni film is both intellectually atrocious and, perhaps worse, morally infantile. Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity A folly, to be sure, but its photography, boldly colored and concrete, also borders on abstraction, a dislocated gaze upon practical and temporary things. Explosive. Cue the Floyd. Rated: 8/10 Feb 17, 2023 Full Review Robin Holabird Robin Holabird Antonioni's imagery and questions remain sadly relevant. Jul 16, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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      dave s Every great director seems to stumble at some point in their career. In the case of Michelangelo Antonioni, that stumble seems to have come with 1970s Zabriskie Point, a disjointed effort about revolution, alienation, and the chasm between the establishment and the counter-culture in 1960's America. The story is weak (a hippy girl and a revolutionary boy escape L.A., meet in the desert, and then go their separate ways), the acting is amateurish (which makes sense since none of them are established actors), and Antonioni's usually sure-handed direction seems to be decidedly unsure of itself. On the plus side, the soundtrack is great and the locations are beautiful, but that's nowhere near close enough to salvage what is otherwise a mess. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Shioka O I like Antonioni's style, and this his American work lacks tension in my opinion. The ennui his films posses work well in European background. This is hippie, visually stunning though. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/05/22 Full Review Mike J Omg is that frank zapata or is it Jim Morrison or better yet Val Kilmer who knows I didn't watch it and probably never will Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/28/22 Full Review Audience Member I must be missing something. Was this movie supposed to be good? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review William L I'm kind of bamboozled by Zabriskie Point. It's too obvious and heavy-handed to be a sincere mainstream criticism of American social changes in the '60s, and not weird enough to earn the status of cult classic (though it certainly tries; painting some boobs on a plane to fly back to the waiting arms of police feels like Antonioni is trying to be a milquetoast John Waters). The story is pretty wandering and events just sort of happen without a whole lot of justification or sense, and the relationship that the film is based upon seems haphazard and nonsensical, but is so clearly intended to represent an idyllic alternative to the posionous greed and authoritarianism that has become part and parcel of American culture. Zabriskie Point feels like an "outisde looking in" take on counterculture that features some solid landscape shots but doesn't know how to execute its themes effectively, coming off as simplistic or canned at points and aimless for long stretches. Slow-motion shots of exploding clothing racks and refrigerators aren't really insightful in and of themselves, and it's stuff like that that makes the heavy criticism aimed at Antonioni from his contemporaries seem valid. Cool soundtrack, though. (1.5/5) Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/27/21 Full Review Audience Member innovative concepts and visions for the time but seen today it tires the viewer Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A fugitive campus radical (Mark Frechette) steals a plane and meets a secretary (Daria Halprin) in Death Valley.
      Director
      Michelangelo Antonioni
      Producer
      Harrison Starr
      Screenwriter
      Michelangelo Antonioni, Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Sam Shepard, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe
      Distributor
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., United International Pictures
      Production Co
      Metro Goldwyn Mayer
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 9, 1970, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      May 26, 2009
      Runtime
      1h 52m