Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1970 • United States
Starring Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor
Italian art-cinema titan Michelangelo Antonioni delivered a jolt of jarring modernist abstraction to Hollywood with this startling journey into the 1960s counterculture, one of the most daring and polarizing films ever released by a major American studio. Training his eye on the consumerist detritus and alienated vistas of the American landscape, Antonioni follows a student radical (Mark Frechette) and a disillusioned office worker (Daria Halprin) as they momentarily leave everything behind for a surreal erotic encounter in the Mojave Desert—before blowing it all apart, literally, in a stunning explosion of nihilist rage set to the thunderous squall of Pink Floyd.
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