Zabriskie Point (1969)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor
Synopsis:
A political activist wanted for murder and an anthropology student high tail it into the desert around Death Valley, California.
Review:
MGM wanted a slice of the arthouse action after the success of Blow-Up, but somehow the audience didn't show up for this nihilistic wallow. The director uses affectless and inexperienced leads, which is part of the problem but the whole of his thesis, as he examines how the Sixties have left America's youth at decade's end. He also famously experiments with reverse and slow motion running speeds. Bruno Dumont performed a homage to the film in his Twentynine Palms (sic - 2003).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor
Synopsis:
A political activist wanted for murder and an anthropology student high tail it into the desert around Death Valley, California.
Review:
MGM wanted a slice of the arthouse action after the success of Blow-Up, but somehow the audience didn't show up for this nihilistic wallow. The director uses affectless and inexperienced leads, which is part of the problem but the whole of his thesis, as he examines how the Sixties have left America's youth at decade's end. He also famously experiments with reverse and slow motion running speeds. Bruno Dumont performed a homage to the film in his Twentynine Palms (sic - 2003).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor
Synopsis:
A political activist wanted for murder and an anthropology student high tail it into the desert around Death Valley, California.
Review:
MGM wanted a slice of the arthouse action after the success of Blow-Up, but somehow the audience didn't show up for this nihilistic wallow. The director uses affectless and inexperienced leads, which is part of the problem but the whole of his thesis, as he examines how the Sixties have left America's youth at decade's end. He also famously experiments with reverse and slow motion running speeds. Bruno Dumont performed a homage to the film in his Twentynine Palms (sic - 2003).