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He plans to flee his old life, the frustrating work, the wife\u2026 but it is not as easy as he thinks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">London, Munich, Barcelona, Almer\u00eda&#8230; to Antonioni, the landscape is a mirror to the soul. Through his camera lens, he examines the milieu just as much as the person moving within it. The desert has been interpreted to depict Locke\u2019s barren spirit, while Gaud\u00ed\u2019s bizarre house, which blends the modern and the baroque, has been thought to depict his confused mind. Faced with the peculiar wonders of modern architecture, man seeks his place, and significance. While the on-screen encounter between Maria Schneider and Jack Nicholson radiates something truly special, the film is a must watch for its legendary tracking shots alone. Antonioni\u2019s visually stunning meditation on humanity is also Nicholson\u2019s favorite among his own filmography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Joonas Nyk\u00e4nen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English.","protected":false},"featured_media":28576,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28578","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-1975-en","filters-english-dialogue","filters-special-screenings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Passenger &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English. 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