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Professione is a 1975 drama directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and featuring Jack Nicholson. The film depicts a reporter who adopts the life of a deceased man while traveling through North Africa. It explores themes of identity, isolation, and communication within a tense thriller narrative. The story is primarily for viewers interested in psychological dramas and films examining existential questions surrounding truth and perception during the 1970s.
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Professione: reporter ranks #5 of 131 in the Road Movie ranking, behind The Taste of Cherry, ahead of Goin' Down the Road.
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Why does Professione: reporter also appear under the title The Passenger?
Professione: reporter is the Italian title, while The Passenger is its English-language release title. Michelangelo Antonioni directed the film, which was released in 1975.
Whose identity does David Locke assume in Professione: reporter?
Locke, a frustrated television journalist played by Jack Nicholson, takes the identity of a dead hotel guest named Robertson. He later discovers that Robertson was an arms dealer connected to rebels.
Who travels with Jack Nicholson's character in the film?
Maria Schneider plays an unnamed architecture student who joins Locke during his journey through Spain. Her character becomes his companion as both his abandoned life and Robertson's dangerous contacts close in.
Why is the ending of Professione: reporter famous?
Antonioni stages the climax as a long, carefully choreographed shot that moves through the bars of a hotel window and into the square outside. The camera's detached movement makes Locke's fate occur largely away from the viewer's direct attention.
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