Mark is a student radical. Daria is a beautiful restless young woman. Their meeting sparks a deep passion in this visually stunning fantasia on the 60s counterculture when fate brings Mark and Daria together in Death Valley's desolate yet stunning Zabriskie Point. Daria is driving to a meeting with her employer. Mark has been forced to steal an airplane to escape from Los Angeles. The two become entranced both by each other and by the fleeting beauty of the shifting desert sands but their time together is shattered a tragedy that will haunt Daria forever.
]]>Amazon.comAs 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-hous"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