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At Zabriskie Point, which overlooks the Grand Canyon's lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.
—Nick Riganas
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An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: 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)...
—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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In what is supposed to be an indictment of 1960's American society, two aimless young adults try to find themselves in the California desert. Mark is a college student who spends most of his time attending protest rallies. He's also taken to carrying a gun which gets him into big trouble when he is incorrectly identified as the shooter in a cop killing. To get out of town, he steals a small single-engined airplane. Daria works for a property owner planning a new development but she's headed off into the desert, looking for a quiet place to meditate. When Mark and Daria meet they have sex, travel a bit together and otherwise spend their time idly wondering about life in general.
—garykmcd
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In late 1960s America, at the eroded landscape of Zabriskie Point, which overlooks the Grand Canyon's lowest point, two perfect strangers meet. During a violent students' revolt, Mark, a young undergraduate dreamer armed with a gun, finds himself on the run from the police. Then, as one thing leads to another, Mark steals a small aeroplane and flies across the vast Californian desert to scorching Death Valley. But, in the meantime, Daria, too, a young, free-spirited hippie student, is driving across the desert's empty stretch of highway in her slate-grey, 1952 Buick Special, and before long, the two rebellious youngsters cross paths. Now, as the pair of beautiful pipe-dreamers sweep each other off their feet, starting an unrestrained romance, their perfect bodies intertwine in a flawed world, making love at Zabriskie Point's dusty terrain.
—Nick Riganas
