THE PASSENGER
Hosted by Bright Wall/Dark Room
LIVE DISCUSSION
TUESDAY | MAY 20 | 12 PM PT
“I remember going to see [The Passenger] on a Friday night in a packed theater (the now-defunct Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan), not knowing anything about it,” recalls Galerie curator Ezra Edelman. “I was so taken by the feeling of dislocation that I got from the first 20 minutes.”
After being abandoned by his guide in the desert of northern Chad, reporter David Locke (Jack Nicholson) returns to his hotel dehydrated and fed up, only to discover a recent acquaintance, English businessman David Robertson, dead in the room next door. Burned out on his life, Locke decides to assume Robertson’s identity. Escaping across Europe, he slowly realizes that the man he believed had “no family, no friends—just a few commitments, including a bad heart,” was, in fact, an arms dealer.
Join Bright Wall/Dark Room’s Chad Perman and Veronica Fitzpatrick for a deep dive into Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger: its signature existentialism, impressively long tracking shots, ’70s-era Jack Nicholson and the criminally underrated Maria Schneider.
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