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I took this as Antonioni flipping off America, which I’m fine with. The film is beautiful to look at. The acting is bad, I think that was on purpose, I don’t think Antonioni wanted good actors, he wanted bad actors to display the US as a country full of fakes - which it is. The ending, the blowing up of capitalism is great, and the desert orgy, I feel was commenting that the idea of free love is a waste of activity.

d sparky

15May13

On Saturday I proclaimed that Antonioni could do no wrong. Then I rented this. It looks nice but, like how I felt about The Passenger, I'm no big fan. Perhaps a bit too to-the-point for my tastes.

Fabio Di Felice

22Apr13

Meraviglioso, la civiltà letale contrapposta alla passione selvaggia del deserto, della natura, dove si consuma una delle scene d'amore più belle e oniriche di sempre. Colonna sonora stupenda, fotografia da urlo su paesaggi belli da togliere il fiato. Amarissimo il finale.

Federico Di Folco

21Apr13

Zabriskie è un meraviglioso film, con una storia semplice che parla di cose complesse.Una favola,un sogno,un'utopia che si snoda attraverso paesaggi di una bellezza lacerante, accompagnata da una colonna sonora magnifica.Il sogno impossibile di chi vuole fuggire dal denaro,dal consumismo,dal potere, e lo può annientare solo con l'immaginazione. Antonioni firma un'opera grandiosa,struggente,poetica e senza tempo.5*

Melisa Altunkeser

23Mar13

Pink Floyd's soundtracks is the only bearable part of this terrible movie.

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Starshine

20Jan13

I love Pink Floyd's soundtrack.

Bartolomé de las Casas

10Jan13

i kinda hoped one of the desert dwelling russ meyer babes would come to kill off the two annoying leads of this movie

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DT

20Dec12

Counterculture never was so bewitching. After Blowup’s swinging '60s, Antonioni crosses the Atlantic to '60s America: one of youth mobilising (mirroring Godard’s La chinoise) and sexual liberation, of the clash between Main Street and the swell of alternative culture. Its wider snapshot - working class boroughs, tree-lined boulevards - integrates gun culture, corporatism, forming its latent domestic bourgeois critique. Vividly capturing a volatile zeitgeist and its distinct machina; a slice of one Americana, in one of Antonioni’s most striking.

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-VAHID-

15Dec12

I can't believe Antonioni made this film,it is too bad

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PABS

15Dec12

That's it, then. I'm taking this film off my "to see" list.

João Eça

25Nov12

How to be a polite hippy according to Antonioni: -DO NOT SMOKE WEED -STEAL A PLANE AND THEN RETURN IT PAINTED WITH NICE COLOURS -PRETEND TO KILL A COP BUT DON'T REALLY KILL HIM -GET SHOT WHILE DOING A GOOD DEED -MAKE AN ORGY IN THE DESERT WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON -AND FINALLY BLOW UP AMERICA WITH THE POWER OF YOUR MIND (AND IN SLOW MOTION)

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withche.07

28Oct12

3 and half.

R i M.

19Oct12

beautiful colors, melodies, scenes

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Benoit

3Oct12

I didn't liked it at all, despite the fact that it's the kind of movies I like ! I found the characters absolutely boring and the movie pretenscious. Maybe it was good back in the 70's but it has not aged well :(

T. J. Harman

1Oct12

A movie I love that I can't really diagree with any of the pnts of fault from its ditractors. Its flawed & pretenscious and silly at times but Antonioni's direction of certain scenes & his usual atmosphere combined with its time capsul qualities make me an apologist. It's hilarious that a Hollywood studio make such a communist-friendly film even for the times but I don't know which party involved to laugh at more.

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stoyanov

11Jul12

The two surreal scenes (lovemaking & end of capitalism) take the film on a whole new level. Beautifully shot and directed. http://youtu.be/ResQFDDsDAI

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DT, buffy brenner, DADA WEATHERMAN

Renan Lazzarin

24May12

Pretty much in love with this. Quite a bunch of awesome scenes — in the most differente ways — tied together by seemingly unpretentious, yet very well architected filmmaking.

Adrock

20Apr12

Mostly awesome, even if it veers into unintentional comedy at times. Probably even more effective if you do a J before viewing.

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T. J. Harman, OLIVER-J

Arcanus

9Apr12

Terrible. The ending is the best bit. When I say that, what I mean is, it's realising the bloody thing is finally, finally over.... If only the explosion at the end had been at the beginning, we'd have been spared over 100 minutes of utter tedium.

Howard Orr

4Feb12

Almost an identikit film made by an European director going to the United States. In other words, it's so obviously bowled over by the open spaces and ubiquitous advertising imagery of America that it's hard to take seriously as art.

oldfilmsflicker

19Apr12

I'm pretty sure Antonioni used the "ubiquitous advertising imagery of America" as much as he did as a way of commenting on the materialism of America. that as the whole point.
oldfilmsflicker

19Apr12

*was

Patrick Humphreys

18Aug11

Should have called this one Blowup instead. What an ending!

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Bruno Leal, tareksobh, ~*~, ULA ZUHRA

Border Radio

7Jun11

Worth it for the ending alone. One of the great flawed films.

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Subterranean Cinema

3Jun11

Very underrated, with some eye popping visuals and a fantastic soundtrack. The explosive finale to Pink Floyd music is classic! Dont believe the Medved brothers, because while this film isnt 5 star perfect, its pretty close.

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Scorpio Velvet, ULA ZUHRA

stauff

29Apr11

The greatest gift a director can impart to the viewer is simply his or her unique way of looking at the world, their "eye." And Antonioni had an unbelievable eye, like no filmmaker before or since. It's Antonioni's keen sense for pure, abstract cinematic beauty and compositional perfection that help to make the much-maligned ZABRISKIE POINT a truly indelible film, one that should be cherished despite its flaws.

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ULA ZUHRA, David Wilkie, Travis Trager

Ruggles Bodine

21Apr11

It's just fantastic. Three scenes here really are among the best in the history of cinema, well, at least two.

iciae

2Apr11

my favourite <3

Joel

1Apr11

I have to admit, I came into this film expecting all the things people have complaints about it, and I walked away really enjoying most of it. Yes, the dialogue is somewhat awkward, the acting rather terrible, but as Antonioni is more a man of Images and Ideas over all else I found much to ponder. Unfortunately all I can find are people whining about how horrible this movie is and few wanting to really delve in.

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DT, N. C., stauff, DADA WEATHERMAN

Graveyard Poet

18Mar11

The slow motion explosion apocalyptic finale scored to Pink Floyd is the keeper.

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filmluvr81

15Apr11

Christopher Nolan MUST have watched this movie and based some of those shots from Inception on that finale

Kyle Lewis

9Nov10

Is Antonioni the most pretentious or brilliant filmmaker of the 20th century? I am definitely leaning toward the brilliant side but I can see why so many despise or just don't get his films. Like Godard you can easily go through long passages of his films bored to tears. But if you work with him and don't expect the film to think for you or even be entertained to much you will be rewarded.

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N. C., Adam