
An epic portrait of late-1960s America as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot.... (Full plot summary below)
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An epic portrait of late-1960s America as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot.
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| PopMattersBill GibronYou will not see a better distillation of the entire 1960s and everything it stood for - good, bad, indifferent, insightful - than this uncompromising artistic overview. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawAntonioni's head trip of a film is very pleasurable. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAntonioni's first U.S. film is flawed, but it's worth watching. |
| Times (UK)Kate MuirZabriskie Point is a both a thriller and a doped-out dream-capsule of the revolutionary hippy movement in California. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteAlmost 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. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum[Antonioni's] beautiful handling of 'Scope compositions and moods has many lingering aftereffects, and the grand and beautiful apocalyptic finale is downright spectacular. |
| Film ThreatPhil HallIf the film is a failure, then at least it is a striking and provocative failure that attempted to challenge audiences. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonAs a fan of Antonioni's other works, I'd have to say that, of the ones I've seen, Zabriskie Point ranks near the bottom. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonA visually sumptuous experience, it also typifies the very worst excesses of hippie-era filmmaking. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAntonioni has sought to bring into the focus of his own insights, the student vs establishment conflict. He is on foreign terrain. |