Zabriskie Point

A daring and flamboyant blend of fiction and documentary...

Zabriskie Point is a both a thriller and a doped-out dream-capsule of the revolutionary hippy movement in California.

A maligned masterpiece.

Antonioni's head trip of a film is very pleasurable.

A visually sumptuous experience, it also typifies the very worst excesses of hippie-era filmmaking.

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

Antonioni adds some substance to his sociopolitical critique of youth nonconformism and countercultural alienation, but sometimes his narrative frequents common places that fade like dust in the desert. [Full review in Spanish]

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.

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.

Antonioni's imagery and questions remain sadly relevant.