Film Review The Passenger
Issue 74 Introductory note: 2015 sees the 40th anniversary of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (aka Profession: Reporter ), arguably one of the Italian director's greatest masterpieces. To mark the occasion, Senses of Cinema reprints an article on the film originally published in 1979.
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David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body.
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The Passenger spotlights an outstanding and understated performance from Jack Nicholson and masterful direction by Michelangelo Antonioni, and was the final film of a three-picture agreement between him and MGM, following Blowup (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970). Antonioni is seemingly not inconvenienced with a conventional story structure to a.
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Left alone in a gaudy church, lost in a sea of apartments, in a cathedral Hanging over the open water with arms open—stunning visual motifs—and this one was clearly picked up on by PT Anderson for his trademark shot in The Master from 2012. No musical score
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Jack Nicholson plays a burnt-out reporter who exchanges his identity with that of a man he finds dead in a North African hotel room. He does this to get away from the mess of his old life but.
Professione reporter (Profession Reporter/The Passenger). 1975
THE PASSENGER. The Passenger - A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
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Michelangelo Antonioni's endlessly digressive Blow-Up (1966), the Italian director's first of four films produced outside his home country, features a particular digression that links it directly to his final international production, The Passenger (1975). Blow-Up 's central character, Thomas, is a hot-shot fashion photographer living a materially successful but emotionally unfulfilling.
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When David Locke impulsively exchanges identities with a businessman he finds dead in a North African hotel room, he believes he's starting anew. But passing himself off as someone else doesn't mean he's escaping the past—especially when the new identity is that of an international arms dealer.
Scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" 1975. Partially
The Passenger (1975) Every Antonioni movie is a Western--they all center around lonely wanderers, barren landscapes, and people living off the grid. Heck, this one literally takes place in a desert.
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Written by Antonioni, Mark Peploe, and Peter Wollen, the film is about a disillusioned Anglo - American journalist, David Locke ( Jack Nicholson ), who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections to the rebels in the current civil war.
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Antonioni got his money and his stars, the film was made and MGM released The Passenger in April of 1975 to general critical and commercial indifference and the film drifted into obscurity.
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Paraphrasing from Ephraim Katz's seminal Film Encyclopaedia, the cinema of Antonioni features modern man seemingly ill suited to the world of his own making and finding relationships and communication difficult. Even the mystery of his own emotional state is utterly beyond his comprehension.
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"The Passenger" - Michelangelo Antonioni (1975) After the relatively modest results from Zabriskie Point (1970), even Michelangelo Antonioni's loyal fans may have wondered if his powers of artistic expression were in permanent decline.
The Passenger The Complete Script by Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni is a director whose characters, more or less, travel within an assorted ephemera. Life unfolds in the moment and they are not left pondering the consequences. Humans are presented as a small species—lost and without a higher purpose. As example, in L'Avventura, a woman goes missing on an island only to then have her.
The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni Photograph by Srdjan Kotarlic
The penultimate shot of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), a seamless tracking movement lasting more than six minutes, is one of the wonders of world cinema.