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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Passenger (1975), a thriller about an American journalist (Jack Nicholson) covering a war in Africa; he discovers the body of his doppelganger, and decides to assume the dead guy’s identity. Uh-oh, turns out the guy was an arms dealer with a lot of enemies, and now both the warring factions and the police are after him. This is considered one of the best films of Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni, whose L’avventura (1960) we watched a few days ago.

After that is All About My Mother (1999), one of the most acclaimed films of one of Spain’s most celebrated directors, Pedro Almmodovar, whose Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) we previously watched. Following her son’s death, a mother searches for the father he never knew, befriending a motley crew along the way, including a trans actress, a nun, and jealous lover. Hilarity ensues, along with some heartwarming. This is one of the highest-rated Spanish films on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Passenger: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-passenger/
• All About My Mother: https://letterboxd.com/film/all-about-my-mother/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Passenger: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073580/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• All About My Mother: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15041

CWs for The Passenger:

• Implied sex.
• Blood.
• Gun violence.
• Beatings.
• Profanity.
• Smoking.

CWs for All About My Mother:

• Sexual assault: a man makes non-consensual advances on a woman, but he is stopped.
• Drug use.
• Death of child.
• Death of parent.
• Vomiting.
• Hospital scene.
• Smoking.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Car crash.
• Someone is hit by a car.

Links to movies:

• The Passenger: https://tankie.tube/w/oTvoM2Gp8bB64G61C46P87
• All About My Mother: https://tankie.tube/w/9hgCCV8mKuuqvDoKgDxuG7