Word: daria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Antonioni's effort is undercut to an even greater degree by the most inept cast he has ever used. Daria Halprin brings a supremely beautiful body, a maddenigly erotic bearing, and a ridiculously forced monotone to her lead role. Her youth is only physical. She speaks as if reading cue cards and says "hee-hee-hee" very quickly in her highest voice when she has to laugh...
...first-year student in film school. Antonioni's two protagonists are simply archetypical symbols of what Antonioni believes to be American youth. Mark (Mark Frechette) is a cool, angry college revolutionary who is "on a reality trip." Consequently, he rejects a marijuana joint offered him by Daria (Daria Halprin), a free-floating young Los Angeles secretary who prefers music to politics...
Mark, who seems to have shot a cop at a student strike, has stolen a small private plane and winged off to the California desert. Daria is taking a leisurely drive to Phoenix to meet her boss (Rod Taylor), who also seems to be her lover. These ambiguities remain unresolved and irrelevant; what matters is that boy and girl meet, love and copulate in the desert, accompanied by 35 couples (and two triples), who writhe in the gypsum in awful parodies of sexual ecstasy. "I always knew it would be like this," sighs a sated Mark as he and Daria...