The Passenger (1975)
(Professione: Reporter)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col 119m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Synopsis:
A journalist covering a North African guerrilla war swaps identities with the lifeless body of the man in the room next door at his hotel, a gunrunner to the rebels. Before long he is dodging both his former colleague and wife, and the agents of the country's president, as he follows the appointments in his newly acquired diary.
Review:
Antonioni's location-hopping anti-political thriller, is a fascinating portrait of the continent, particularly Spain, at a specific time in the past, preoccupied as he is with the environments in which his characters find themselves. The dialogue is clunky at times, particularly in the mouths of the British actors, but Nicholson manages to deliver a natural performance despite the inconsequentiality of much that he has to say. Famous for its six-and-a-half-minute dolly shot (the penultimate shot of the film) for which the director constructed a whole hotel so as to avoid shooting the death scene as such, the film is as absorbing in its quiet and slow way as anything else one was likely to see in 1975.
(Professione: Reporter)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col 119m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Synopsis:
A journalist covering a North African guerrilla war swaps identities with the lifeless body of the man in the room next door at his hotel, a gunrunner to the rebels. Before long he is dodging both his former colleague and wife, and the agents of the country's president, as he follows the appointments in his newly acquired diary.
Review:
Antonioni's location-hopping anti-political thriller, is a fascinating portrait of the continent, particularly Spain, at a specific time in the past, preoccupied as he is with the environments in which his characters find themselves. The dialogue is clunky at times, particularly in the mouths of the British actors, but Nicholson manages to deliver a natural performance despite the inconsequentiality of much that he has to say. Famous for its six-and-a-half-minute dolly shot (the penultimate shot of the film) for which the director constructed a whole hotel so as to avoid shooting the death scene as such, the film is as absorbing in its quiet and slow way as anything else one was likely to see in 1975.
(Professione: Reporter)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col 119m
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Synopsis:
A journalist covering a North African guerrilla war swaps identities with the lifeless body of the man in the room next door at his hotel, a gunrunner to the rebels. Before long he is dodging both his former colleague and wife, and the agents of the country's president, as he follows the appointments in his newly acquired diary.
Review:
Antonioni's location-hopping anti-political thriller, is a fascinating portrait of the continent, particularly Spain, at a specific time in the past, preoccupied as he is with the environments in which his characters find themselves. The dialogue is clunky at times, particularly in the mouths of the British actors, but Nicholson manages to deliver a natural performance despite the inconsequentiality of much that he has to say. Famous for its six-and-a-half-minute dolly shot (the penultimate shot of the film) for which the director constructed a whole hotel so as to avoid shooting the death scene as such, the film is as absorbing in its quiet and slow way as anything else one was likely to see in 1975.