ZABRISKIE POINT
USA – 1970 – Color – 113’
Direction: Michelangelo Antonioni | Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Franco Rossetti, Sam Shepard, Clare Peploe | Cinematography: Alfio Contini | Editing: Franco Arcalli | Music: Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Youngbloods, Kaleidoscope, Patti Page, John Fahey, Roy Orbison | Cast: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Garaway, Kathleen Cleaver, Rod Taylor | Production: Carlo Ponti, Harrison Starr
In a place called Zabriskie Point, in the heart of Death Valley, Mark and Daria, two young people who are complete strangers to each other, meet and become lovers. He is a politicized activist who is wanted by the authorities for killing a police officer in clashes inside the university campus. She is a student and the secretary of a big businessman who intends to redevelop and turn the nearby desolate area into a city. Their brief encounter will be fatal and will change their lives until the apocalyptic finale.
*"Zabriskie Point" is the only film that Antonioni shot in America.
