Passenger

Name: Passenger
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Released: 2019-09-01

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Storyline

Passenger tells the story of arriving in a new country to live. Sitting in the back of a taxi, you gradually piece together your story, abstracted and dreamlike, as you progress into the quiet shock of a new world. Your taxi driver, himself a migrant to Australia, navigates the new terrain with you, and acts as your guide while revealing small glimpses of his own story. This 360-degree, stop-motion VR film recreates and investigates the geographic and visual dislocation of arriving somewhere unfamiliar: the beginnings of finding a new home in a foreign land.

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DirectorsIsobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine

ReleasedSep 1, 2019

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studio

Film Camp

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“Antonioni's classic, a tale of lonely, estranged characters on a journey though the mysterious landscapes of identity, shimmers with beauty and uncertainty.”

88% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

David Robinson

RTThe Times (UK)Oct 12, 2023

It is one of those very risky pieces of virtuosity which tend inevitably to distract the mind to questions of how it's done; but it's still beautiful.

Derek Malcolm

RTGuardianOct 11, 2023

It is essentially an internal drama traversing a moral hinterland whose only real location is the soul. And its triumph is that, in externalising this troubled journey, the film so seldom trivialises it.

Nigel Andrews

RTFinancial TimesJan 2, 2019

The Passenger is almost a masterpiece. Almost? That's because the plot, a thrillerish tangle about swapped identity in a menacing foreign country, begs for the pen of Patricia Highsmith.

Eddie Harrison

RTfilm-authority.comSep 3, 2026

…as well as one of Jack Nicholson’s most underplayed, naturalistic performances, The Passenger has complex layers of meaning to unravel…Antonioni elevates this movie to art with some remarkable flourishes in a grounded, realistic narrative….