06/03/2025
Dear Members,
The latest film in our current season takes place next Wednesday, March 12, in Iontas at 7.30 pm. Below, is our summary of the film:
"This season’s classic film is by the enormously influential Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni. Unlike many of his films, "The Passenger" has something of a traditional plot, while still being concerned with familiar Antonioni themes such as alienation and lostness in the modern world. David Locke (played by Jack Nicholson) is a reporter gathering material in Africa for a documentary on a guerrilla movement. In typical Antonioni fashion, Locke is filmed as adrift in space, here the African desert, a metaphor for Locke’s own existential drift – he is frustrated with his life, his marriage is failing and he is losing interest in his job. Circumstances offer him the chance to abandon his identity and assume another. Although one may well disappear from one’s own life and from family and colleagues, can one escape from oneself, and from one’s past? And whose identity exactly has Locke taken on? Antonioni follows these themes through as Locke finds he has not gained a freedom he may have thought to achieve, culminating in one of the most brilliantly filmed end-scenes in modern cinema by a master of cinematic imagery."
We hope to see you next Wednesday!
