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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...
...HORRORS of their performance are compounded by a hackneyed, clumsy script. Just after the lovers meet, Daria asks Dark to "Imagine your mind is a bunch of plants...
...Daria pauses, then philosophizes: "You know, its too bad we can't plant the seeds in our minds. We could pick only the good seeds and then only have nice memories...
...Daria, amazed. "But don't you see? There are no terrible things...
...Conti's dazzling photography with nicely chosen cuts of John Fahey, the Grateful Dead, the Stones, the Youngbloods, Pink Floyd, and Kaleidoscope is consistently right. Two nonverbal scenes in particular are so overwhelming as to warrant sitting through the whole movie. Both are fantasy projections of the heroes. While Daria and Mark make love in a Mojave riverbed (and it is fairly anti-social to do it in that much dirt), more and more lovers seem to materialize all over the desert basin until it is covered with playfully wrestling, fornicating bodies that tumble down the dunes in twos...