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Zabriskie Point
Drama
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to visually audacious counterculture cinema, languid romantic encounters, and enigmatic meditations on freedom versus commercial society.
- Tone
- contemplative, surreal, bittersweet
- Payoff
- wonder, reflection
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- youth rebellion, alienation, consumerism, freedom, romantic escape
- Setting
- late 1960s America, urban sprawl and vast desert landscapes
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Stream
Criterion Channel
