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Cinema Talks > 2016 Spring (Season 9)
 
Wednesday 13 April 2016 (7:00 to 8:30 pm - Open to all)
 
Title: Profession Reporter (The Passenger)
 
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy 1975)
Moderator: Monika Borgmann

Language:  English (French S/T)
Duration: 1 hr 59 min minutes
Key Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
 
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Synopsis:
 
The Passenger is a 1975 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen and Antonioni, the film is about an 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. Co-starring Maria Schneider, The Passenger was the final film in Antonioni's three-picture deal with producer Carlo Ponti and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Blowup and Zabriskie Point, and competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
 

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni (Adapted from Wikipedia)
 
Antonioni (1912 – 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents": L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
 
(For an article in Britannica, Click Here).
 
 
Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1960, 1962), Palme d'Or (1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize (1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion (1955), Golden Lion (1964), FIPRESCI Prize (1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award (1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995.
 
 

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