Zabriskie Point (1970)
 Director Michelangelo Antonioni's mind expanding odyssey of two
youths (Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin) on the run from the
police after a violent student demonstration.
Their surreal
adventures in the California desert climax in slow motion
apocalypse to the strains of Pink Floyd.
After a meeting about student rebellion Mark is suspected of
shooting a cop. He flees the city in a small plane and flies out
to the desert where he meets free-spirit Daria who is on her way
to meet with her new boss Lee Allen.
The two spend some time in
the desert with nature before he returns to give himself up and
she goes on to join her boss.
But this is not a script-driven film. Except for the first ten
minutes, it is mostly visual, with stunning cinematography. But
the beautiful images seem random, and lack synthesis.
The film had equally-strange echoes in real life: Mark
Frechette later robbed a bank, and died mysteriously in prison,
and co-star Daria Halprin was Frechette's off-screen girlfriend
for a short time.
Also-starred Rod Taylor and a very-young Harrison Ford.
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