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)...
Antonioni has no feeling for young people...He has tried to make a serious movie and hasn't even achieved a beach-party level of insight.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Because of the fundamental emptiness of his American vision, all sorts of flaws that one might overlook in better Antonioni films become apparent.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Antonioni's sorrowing, stranger's-eye view of modern America is sadly flawed by the way his 'story' s bogged down in the mood of student revolt dogging the nation in the late '60s.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Antonioni has sought to bring into the focus of his own insights, the student vs establishment conflict. He is on foreign terrain.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
31 Jul 2007
fresh:
A visually sumptuous experience, it also typifies the very worst excesses of hippie-era filmmaking.