After his mod-era romp through Swinging London in Blow-Up, Antonioni moved on to psychedelic southern California in Zabriskie Point, his second English-language film, an hallucinatory, impressionistic portrait of America at the height of the hippie counterculture. After a campus protest turns violent, the rebellious scion of a rich family flees to Death Valley, where he meets a pot-smoking secretary and has visions of the apocalypse. Antonioni's virtuoso visual sense and feel for landscape are, as always, astonishing; his anti-Establishment indictment of mega-materialist corporate America still seems spot-on.
"The most entertaining of Antonioni's films... the most intelligent, compassionate probing of the radical young in recent American film." -Richard Corliss, Time Magazine