The Passenger

The Passenger (1975), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, is another great film of locations, places, and buildings as much as it is about characters. Jack Nicholson stars as the war correspondent Locke who takes on the identity of arms dealer while reporting on a war in Africa. Along the way he takes along a girl, Maria Schneider, with him on his travels while he tries to stay ahead of his colleagues and wife who are searching for him or at least an answer to how he died. The locations include the desert in Africa but also the rooftop of a building by Gaudi in Barcelona. There are several long shots and the film ends with an interesting pan that comes from the room in which Locke has just died before his wife and the police find him and goes out into the courtyard through the window as if his spirit were leaving his body.