Zabriskie Point
Michelangelo Antonioni
Los Angeles. Student discontent is rising. During a demonstration a policeman is killed. Suspected of murder, Mark escapes on a light aircraft. Flying over Death Valley he see a car driven by Daria, an attractive young woman looking for freedom...
With : Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Garaway, Kathleen Cleaver, Rod Taylor
Screenplay : Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Sam Shepard, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe
Image : Alfio Contini
Sound : Franklin Milton
Music : Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia
Editing : Franco Arcalli
Decors : George Nelson
Screenplay : Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Sam Shepard, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe
Image : Alfio Contini
Sound : Franklin Milton
Music : Pink Floyd, Jerry Garcia
Editing : Franco Arcalli
Decors : George Nelson
Production : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distribution: Mission
Distribution: Mission
During two stays in the United States, the country appeared to the director as "the place where it is possible to isolate in a pure state certain essential truths on the contradictions of our time. Within this chaos of products and consumption, waste and poverty, acceptance and revolt, innocence and violence, there is a tumultuous and continuous change. For me Zabriskie Point has a more obvious moral and political commitment than that of my previous films. I mean that I will not leave the spectator free to draw their own conclusions, but will look to communicate my own"... The desire for change here takes the form of an apocalyptic spectacle. "My film is perhaps the story of a quest, an attempt for liberation, in a private and interior sense, but in relation to the provocative reality of the whole of America" (Michelangelo Antonioni).