KONANGAL 14th Oct; Michelangelo Antonioni’s 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.

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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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 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.

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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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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.

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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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Artwork for Carlotta Films' Ultra Collector's Edition Blu-Ray of The Passenger by Robert Sammelin By Tim Pelan Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger is a languid thriller in which not much seems to happen, beautifully. The protagonist, David Locke (Jack Nicholson), a weary journalist chasing rebels in Chad, on a seeming whim swaps

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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.

Film Review The Passenger

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

The Passenger The Complete Script by Michelangelo Antonioni

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The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni Photograph by Srdjan Kotarlic

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.

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Oct. 28, 2005 Early in "L'Avventura," the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960 landmark film, one man says to another, "There's nowhere to run." The man is talking about the massive and.

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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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2h 6m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 26K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:08 2 Videos 99+ Photos Drama Thriller Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance. Director Michelangelo Antonioni Writers Mark Peploe Enrico Sannia Michelangelo Antonioni

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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.