What's the only thing better than a great story? A story within it. For Hamlet, the play's the thing. Velasquez's mise en abyme intrigues although it's entirely hidden from the viewer (we only see the back of the painted painter's canvas). Deathtrap is more bombastic.I just saw The Passenger and yes, Antonioni is the coolest. Weaving through Gaudi's Palacio Güell, a girl he just met (Maria Schneider) tells Jack Nicholson's David Locke that "people disappear every day." He agrees, "Every time they leave the room."
Back in a fantastic London, Locke's estranged wife is trapped; obsessively watching documentary film he shot in Africa, she tries to piece the final act together. The ghost's camera is turned on him by her, a witch doctor, and us. It's revelatory.
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