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Zabriskie Point (1970)

Starring: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Rating: R (Restricted) |  Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Garaway
  • Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Clare Peploe, Franco Rossetti, Sam Shepard, Tonino Guerra
  • Producers: Carlo Ponti, Harrison Starr
  • Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: French (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Japanese
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001TK80CA
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,250 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonioni's sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian director's first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigner's eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, that's the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.

>Not so in 1970. Zabriskie Point bombed with critics and audiences because Antonioni proved to be way out of his depth in attempting to relate to American youth and their inchoate revolution--something underscored by the irredeemably amateurish performances of unknowns Daria Halprin and Mark Frechette in the leading roles. The story, such as it is, takes its impetus from a student strike during which a police officer is shot. Whether Mark fired the shot is unclear (the editing at the crucial moment recalls the cop-killing in Godard's Breathless), but he splits. His flight into the desert in a stolen plane will bring him together with Daria, who's driving to Phoenix to meet her employer and possible lover, a real-estate developer (Rod Taylor). What transpires between these two young people has to be seen to be believed, except that it can't be believed. Nevertheless, the events of the next-to-last reel license Antonioni to tee up an extraordinary finale--a hallucinatory apocalypse in which American materialism gets what's coming to it, and the desert becomes a sunset bloom.

It's a measure of the film's miscalculation that, although the Taylor character is clearly meant to personify capitalist rapacity, the actor's professionalism is such a relief from the vapid leads that the guy comes off as sympathetic. There are also brief, welcome turns by G.D. Spradlin (future deliverer of the Apocalypse Now line "Terminate with extreme prejudice") and veteran Western player Paul Fix, whose Death Valley café becomes the scene of an astonishing Edward Hopper moment. Gold is where you find it. --Richard T. Jameson

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The lone extra is the original trailer, with which, like the title song, we can only hope Antonioni had nothing to do. Over images of the prehistoric wilderness that gives the film its name, an adult voice salaciously intones: "Zabriskie Point ... where a boy ... and a girl ... meet ... and touch ... and blow their minds." Cue rock music and mass love-in. --Richard T. Jameson

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In a story of youthful rebellion, a young man steals an airplane and flies over the desert, where he meets a young woman and falls in love.

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78 of 86 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gary Fike, March 22, 2001
By Gary Fike (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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I give this move 5 stars for personal reasons. If you peer ever so closely at the panoramic 'orgy in the desert' shot, you will see me groaning with "her" in the sand. While there was no actual fornicating going on within my range of vision, I can tell you the gal next to me was asking out loud for it! Damn! I miss those incredibly naive, self-indulgent days. It was, I believe, October of 1968 and I was a senior in a Las Vegas high school. I answered the casting call for extras. Miracously, my father allowed me to miss a week of school to "train" with a feely-touchy dance troupe from NY. When shooting started MGM would bus us from Vegas to the Point every morning at 5am. Most of my time on the set was spent gawking at Diana, Antonioni, and all the wild movie equipment. They even imported fine silk sand to blow around. I guess Death Valley sand was not european enough. I remember Antonioni, in full archetypical director mode, chasing Mark F. off the sound set for laughing at our feeble attempts to create "love noises" for the orgy scene. HA! The setting was surreal, the weather incredible, the catered lunch edible, and the young ladies sensuous and willing in that 60's way. You know how you sometimes fantasize about going back to a time in your life that was almost perfect? Well, this is one of those times for me.

Oh, I read the Time Magazine review when the movie came out and the reviewer said, "The moral of the story? Don't help a good boy go bad. Lock your airplane, take your keys." <G>


Since I wrote that "review" back in 1991 I had occasion to revisit Zabriskie's Point (the place, not the movie). It was my 50th birthday and my wife treated me to a stay at the famous Furnace Creek Inn.

We went over and it was as I remember it. Stunning. The only change was the parking/view area. You can no longer just drive on in to the canyons as the catering truck did back in 1968. So, while I am 'pointing and pondering' these three beautiful ladies arrive. They are talking away in some Euro language and I hear, "Antonioni". I say, "you know the movie?"
"Yes, we came to Death Valley just to see this place."
I say, "I was there when the movie was filmed".
They all came unglued and plied me with questions. Had to have a photo. My wife was bemused, to say the least. For a moment, I was once again Making Love, Not War. <G>

I am just realizing what an effect this movie has had on so many people and how lucky I was to be even a small part of it.

The real miracle of it all is that my father let a 17 year old wanna-be hippie skip a week of school to bounce around Death Valley with a bunch of radicals. Another odd thing was that I had recently sworn off drugs and alcohol so I got to be totally "present" for the experience. From my observation, I may have been the only sober participant...!
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Everyone is a Stranger to Candy, June 27, 2005
This review is from: Zabriskie Point [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I saw "ZP" during its initial theatrical release at a theater on an Air Force Base in Texas. Although it was a little more controversial than "My Fair Lady", it was not the revolutionary and subversive piece that many of its current admirers like to believe, or at least the armed forces saw fit to make it accessible to the troops. Of course that was at least in part because nobody could figure out what Antonioni was trying to communicate with this film.

So let's get real, "ZP" is neither the masterpiece its fans claim nor the hopeless morass that most casual viewers find it after their initial exposure. It has some interesting themes and some innovative techniques. It was Antonioni's only foray into America and he had been marking time for several years after "Blowup". As a foreigner he was attracted to the growing student protests on US campuses, these were already a tradition in Europe but were almost unprecedented in America.

His outsider status provided an excellent opportunity for an objective evaluation of US culture at the end of the 1960's. Unfortunately his rambling tale was too superficial to really capture the moods, atmosphere, and dynamics of this period of social change. Other films like "The Strawberry Statement", "Getting Straight", "Joe", "Medium Cool", and "Gimme Shelter" are far better time capsules.

Antonioni's screenplay (if it can be called that) is more an excuse for filming lots of ordinary things in extraordinary ways. You don't ever forget his heroine's smile as she fantasies about blowing up her lover's luxury house, with slow motion images of our materialistic society being blown over the desert. All this to the Pink Floyd's "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up"; a retooled "Careful with That Ax, Eugene".

Antonioni was probably trying to tell us something with his film, maybe that positive change is an internal attitude thing and that violence is not the way to change the system. In 1971 the obvious message was that it was irresponsible to run away or dropout from even an extremely decadent society, that once you get your own head together the responsible thing is to return and change the system with a positive example, even if it gets you killed.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
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45 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Let's Set Some Matters Straight, August 7, 2000
This review is from: Zabriskie Point [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Pursuant to reviews below, (1) John Cassavettes DID NOT DIRECT THIS FILM. (2) BLOW UP made no pretensions to being a 'crime film'- it was a perceptual mystery. (3) Mark Frechette died shortly after, and Daria Halprin is missing in action. Zabriskie Point missed its beat by about three months, when a political shift presaged its arrival and its anarchic sentiments seemed suddenly arch and dated (and remain so since, immersed in acceptable materialism as we are). Antonioni THE DIRECTOR has always been a champion of the natural world, and the intrusion of man-made things on human values and the sanctity of relationships, and he suceeded well with these themes in L'AVVENTURA, L'ECLISSE, LA NOTTE, and BLOW UP. One does sense he was slightly out of element coming to America to make ZABRISKIE POINT; it does read like an outsider looking in, and he hasn't suceeded at that as well as a UK director like John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) managed. Always a master of sound, ZABRISKIE does offer great moments, however. Halrin and Frechette are handsome leads, and Pink Floyd's 'Heart Beat, Pig Meat' offers some wild ambient backdrop. It is not a BAD film, but rather a very flawed one; it was produced perhaps one year too late, and suffers the same dislocation other 'counter-culture' films weathered none-too-gracefully. But it's not a dog, and is still more expertly assembled AND intended than most of the worthless pop trash playing at your local HellPlex in the year 2000.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Avant-guard film about 70s youth rebellion.
Mark Frechette stars as Mark, a college radical leftist. Mark is accused of killing a cop during a campus riot, and he flees all the way to the desert. Read more
Published 2 months ago by S. Spears

4.0 out of 5 stars 1970 Antonioni film
To me it seemed as if parts of the film were influenced by Easy Rider, which is a good thing, for instance, the editing, the use of popular music, and the camera work, as well as... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dr. Feelgood

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In a word: STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID. As a time capsule, this movie documents just how pathetic the '60s were and what complete idiots the hippie-boomers were (and still are)... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Matt the Knife

1.0 out of 5 stars What a piece of dreck.
I knew I would hate this film right from its opening scene: a bunch of spoiled and obnoxious militants rant against the fascist establishment rather than actually contributing to... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Film
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4.0 out of 5 stars zabriskie point
zabriskie point is a story of American corporate culture while also a love story of Daria and Mark two beautiful, free spirits who meet and connect with tragedy. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Daria

5.0 out of 5 stars a film that doesn't play by the rules
Zabriskie Point is stunning as a piece of visual art. The campus scenes, the office interiors, the strange billboards and roadside stops along stretches of barren highway, the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Doug Anderson

1.0 out of 5 stars Wretched!
How the great Antonioni ("Blow Up") concocted this wretched bore is beyond understanding! I was of the "right age" at the time of the film's original release to "get it," but---... Read more
Published 9 months ago by JHB-4

5.0 out of 5 stars Zabriskie Point documentary????
There was a great retrospective documentary made about Zabriskie Point in 2001. I saw it on late night cable. It is called INTO THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Peckinpah

4.0 out of 5 stars A truly mixed bag, some great scenes interspersed with absolute atrocities...
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Published 11 months ago by Grigory's Girl

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