Professione: reporter

Michelangelo Antonioni / FR, IT, US, ES, 1975 / 119 min.

Antonioni points his peerlessly operated camera at reporter David Locke (Jack Nicholson), who is investigating a guerrilla movement. Then this cynical, dyed-in-the-wool, bored journalist takes on the identity of a guest who dies in his hotel, and starts a new life.

poster Professione: reporter (The Passenger) (Michelangelo Antonioni, IT/ES/FR 1975)

Michelangelo Antonioni made three feature films outside of Italy: Blow-up (1965), Zabriskie Point (1970) and Professione: reporter – featuring an ice-cool Jack Nicholson in the lead role of veteran TV reporter David Locke. He roams Europe, pursued by secret agents, arms dealers and a mysterious female architecture student (Maria Schneider); his odyssey ends in a hotel near Almeria, Spain.

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Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Production year

1975

Country

FR, IT, US, ES

Original title

Professione: reporter

Length

119 min.

Language

English, Spanish, French, German

Subtitles

NLD

Format

35mm

Part of

Eye Classics

Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. We screen them regularly, in various programmes. Eye now brings film history even closer with its new series Eye Classics: three classics a week, chosen by Eye's programmers. On the big screen, screened in 35mm whenever possible.

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