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Zabriskie Point

How you get there depends on where you're at.

1970 · 1h 53m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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Overview

An epic portrait of late Sixties 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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66%
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Fresh

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

Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Rotten

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

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

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.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

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

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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