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cinegeek.de - wrote on 06/18/2016
Our Daily Free Stream: Michelangelo Antonioni - Zabriskie Point. Nichts ist unangenehmer, wenn sich Erwachsene im Film wie Kinder benehmen. Wenns wahnsinnig schmalzig wird, beide durch einen Park tollen und die Schwäne füttern und die ganze Zeit kichern. Michelangelo Antonioni hat seine tiefen Einsichten darüber, wie kultivierte Langeweile jedes Leben aus dem Menschen saugt, in einer Reihe von Meisterwerken der 50er und frühen 60er ausgedrückt. Dann wurde er aus Versehen als Popart Ikone weltberühmt. Für Zabriskie Point ging er schliesslich nach Hollywood. Antonioni hatte seinen Stil gefunden. Er inszenierte Filme von grosser Leere, die wohl nie jemand ganz begriff. Es waren Filme aus dem gehobenen Bürgertum. Nun fühlte er sich wohl verpflichtet, einen Film über die Hippie Ära …
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Life in Death Valley
Bribaba - wrote on 05/05/2011
Antonioni's masterpiece is still in DVD limbo, causing poor quality VHS versions to go for $100 in the US. Ironic, because when it was released in theatres you practically had to pay people to and see it - it cost $7m to make and took only $800,000 at the box office. Some of this can be attributed to scathing reviews from Amer critics who didn't take kindly to an Italian taking their country's social and economic values to task. Much blame was attributed also to the casting of two non actors in the lead roles, and it's true they come across as stiff and awkward but they also appear incredibly naive, making them a perfect representation of the period. Indeed, there are few films that capture the socio/political zeitgiest as this does. This isn't to say that it's dour and didactical, …
