antonioni be aim for another hip masterpiece and this time on the other side of the atlantic than blow up . it wasn not the success with critic and youth like the former though . why . maybe because it be a european´s view of america fill with clichés that do not work then and that have not age well . ( the revolutionary student at the beginning be embarrass . ) maybe when it be release big blockbuster movie and those aim specifically at the youth market seem date . if it have be release a year before maybe hippes in desert would have seem fresh . it´s a very interesting film tho and very beautifully shoot with some brilliant and antonionian scene in between and like the love making in the desert and the stillness of the desert mansion and the explosive end . that the lead be two amateur do not help . they be beautiful but inexperienced . mark freshette be slightly good than daria halprin . it would have be so much good with proper actor . maybe michelle phillips or a young jessica lange . the dialog be actually quite funny and poignant at time and tho you wouldn not know the way the line be deliver . a very intersting document of the late sixty definitely worth a look for the photography and the soundtrack .