Review of Zabriskie Point (1970) by Naoya K — 18 Jun 2011
I can't help finding Antonioni one of the best filmmakers ever. One hates or loves him: I am definitely in the camp of admirers. A US American story of a bored Californian student who kills a policeman during a student strike in the late 1960s, steals a plane, flies into the desert, and there meets a girl, makes love, and finally is shot dead when he flies back to L.
A to give back the stolen plane is quite an aesthetic achievement. The landscapes, the perspectives are just stunning. As always with Antonioni, his approach to making films is weird, provocative, subtly subversive.
...A celebration of "bourgeois individualism" under the guise of Marxist anti-establishment rebellion. So at least the revolutionary student discussions featured at the beginning of the film make one think when the film ends.
I am lucky to have one of the best video rental stores in Europe just next door to where I live, offering a great choice of cheap cinema classics....So excuse my geeky film choices...
This review of Zabriskie Point (1970) was written by Naoya K on 18 Jun 2011.
Zabriskie Point has generally received positive reviews.
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