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Zabriskie Point (1970)

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Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their political agenda. Mark (Mark Frechette) steals an airplane and flies over a desert where he meets Daria (Daria Halprin). She is the pot-smoking secretary to businessman Lee Allen (Rod Taylor), while he is a

R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance

Directed By: Michelangelo Antonioni

In Theaters: Feb 9, 1970 Wide

On DVD: May 26, 2009

MGM

Cast

Mark Frechette
Mark
Daria Halprin
Daria
Rod Taylor
Lee Allen
G.D. Spradlin
Lee Allen's Associate
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen
Open Theater of Joe Chaik...
Lovemakers in Death Val...
Paul Fix
Cafe Owner
Harrison Ford
Airport worker [uncredi...
Bill Garaway
Morty
Ben Hammer

Critic Reviews for Zabriskie Point

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (7) | DVD (3)

Antonioni has sought to bring into the focus of his own insights, the student vs establishment conflict. He is on foreign terrain.

July 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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Because of the fundamental emptiness of his American vision, all sorts of flaws that one might overlook in better Antonioni films become apparent.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

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Antonioni has no feeling for young people...He has tried to make a serious movie and hasn't even achieved a beach-party level of insight.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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[Antonioni's] beautiful handling of 'Scope compositions and moods has many lingering aftereffects, and the grand and beautiful apocalyptic finale is downright spectacular.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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...can't be regarded as any sort of success. It's a self-indulgent movie, filled with half-baked ideas and radical sloganeering.

July 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

You will not see a better distillation of the entire 1960s and everything it stood for - good, bad, indifferent, insightful - than this uncompromising artistic overview.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters

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Bill Gibron

PopMatters

Almost 40 years later, Zabriskie Point exists to teach us more exact and sensitive perceptions about a cultural moment that its original audience was too close to appropriately observe.

May 27, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Press

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Armond White

New York Press

If you just sit back and let the film ride out as an experience, you're bound to enjoy the journey

May 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Keith Breese

Filmcritic.com

If the film is a failure, then at least it is a striking and provocative failure that attempted to challenge audiences.

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Phil Hall

Film Threat

Antonioni got the worst reviews of his career for this, his first all-American work, yet a second look suggests that, despite muddled script and apocalyptic finale, the film has some artistic merits in the breathtaking visuals of Death Valley.

August 7, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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With this picture the director falls into two traps: employing endless 'anti-Establishment' cliches and saddling himself with the underwhelming talents of Mark Frechette.

August 29, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

Having seen this and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (the latter repeatedly) in the same week, it's hard not to see them as two sides of the same horny, hazy, and hirsute coin.

August 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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Leo Goldsmith

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Antonioni's sorrowing, stranger's-eye view of modern America is sadly flawed by the way his 'story' s bogged down in the mood of student revolt dogging the nation in the late '60s.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Antonioni's worse film ever

August 22, 2003 Comment

John Esther

Pasadena Weekly

You'll be hard pressed to make much sense out of any of the goings-on.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4

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Set in the Los Angeles of the late 1960s, this is Antonioni's only foray into American territory.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Wow, I don't remember this movie at all, I need to watch it again sometime.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

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In "Zabriskie Point", Mark(Mark Frachete) is a campus radical involved in a college strike. He and his pals have had enough with meetings and decide armed resistance is the way to go. During one confrontation with the police, a policeman is killed. Mark flees by stealing an airplane and flies towards the desert.

February 1, 2006