The Passenger
Screening on Film
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni .
With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre.
France/Italy/US/Spain, 1975, 35mm, color, 118 min.
With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre.
France/Italy/US/Spain, 1975, 35mm, color, 118 min.
One of the international co-productions that marked the 1970s, The Passenger teams Jack Nicholson with Maria Schneider, who at the time was famous for her role in Last Tango in Paris. As Antonioni focuses his camera on the infinite desert, Nicholson portrays David Locke, a television reporter assigned to cover guerilla activity in North Africa who instead fakes his own death, switching identities with a dead English acquaintance. The ending of the film features an incredible, justifiably famous seven-minute-long shot.
