“A masterpiece, one of Michelangelo Antonioni’s finest works.”

Don Druker, Chicago Reader

Antonioni’s The Passenger, which marks a half-century in 2025, is both a central work of studio-cradled auteur cinema of the 1970s and a key film in the oeuvre of a maestro for whom the search for meaning and the subjective nature of reality have been major preoccupations. Jack Nicholson, in one of his finest performances, stars as a disillusioned political journalist working in Chad who swaps identities with a dead man in order to discover what’s on ​“the other side of the window.” He flies off to Europe, determined to leave his old life behind, but discovers his new identity has gained him unwanted attention from dangerous strangers and the BBC. Last Tango in Paris​’s Maria Schneider co-stars; British film theorist Peter Wollen co-scripts. The cerebral spiral of the story is perfectly symbolized in the film’s final breathtaking moments—an extraordinary, unbroken tracking shot, among the greatest in all of cinema.

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“Lean and laconic … It was the first Antonioni film made from a script he didn’t come up with and it may also be his finest work as a director.”

David Schwartz, Screen Slate

“A profoundly beautiful expression of the time warp into which we have all wandered in the ​’70s … It may turn out to be the definitive spiritual testament of our times.”

Andrew Sarris, Village Voice
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