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The Passenger DVD, 1975

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The arrival of The Passenger (aka Professione: Reporter) on DVD means a welcome crossing-out of one of the titles at the top of many people's most-wanted lists. It's worth the wait too. For those who think of Antonioni as the detached chronicler of human alienation, The Passenger is a bit of a surprise - there's humour (much of it courtesy of the wryly amused fatalism of Jack Nicholson's central performance), there's warmth in human interactions, and Antonioni uses colour, sublimely, as if it was about to be outlawed.
Questions of identity and escape are still central of course. Nicholson plays reporter David Locke, lost in the middle of his own life, and who at the beginning of the film is quite literally going nowhere. His Landrover beached in dunes in North Africa, he heads back to his hotel, where the death of a fellow guest enables him to trade his life for another's. He soon finds though that he has unwittingly assumed the identity of an arms dealer. He nevertheless continues on the man's itinerary, accompanied by a free-spirited architectural student, played by Maria Schneider.
The camerawork in The Passenger is justifiably acclaimed. Antonioni talked of using the camera as an objective presence and one not constrained by characters' subjective needs. This makes for a fascinating watch. However, nothing tops the seven minute shot that records the famed final scene at the Hotel de la Gloria, in which the camera leaves Locke's room, passing through the bars of the window, slowly wheeling round in a perfect arc of equanimity, then taking in the interior scene once more from outside the bars.

 

Graeme Hobbs on 9th June 2006
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Film Information

Director - Michelangelo Antonioni

Produced - 1975

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - American film

Cast - Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: PG Publisher: Sony Pictures Region: 2
Length: 113 mins Aspect: 1.85:1 Widescreen Cat No: CDR70303
Format: DVD Colour Subtitles: Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Slovene, Danish, German, Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, Hungarian, English, Bulgarian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish

 

 

DVD Extras

  • Commentaries:Jack Nicholson. Aurora Irvine and Mark Peploe (writer)

 

 

Film Description

A reporter (Nicholson) travelling in the North African desert takes on the identity of a deceased stranger to escape his life. He then starts a relationship with a strange young woman he meets (Schneider). For decades, Michelangelo Antonio's existential drama has been nearly impossible to track down, but at last it is finally getting the exposure it deserves.

 

 

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