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Of the many Euro arthouse B-pictures that didn’t make their way into the official story of Elizabeth Taylor’s career as she was eulogized in 2011, the variously titled Identikit – released in the U.S. under the original novella title The Driver’s Seat – is a bizarre curio from her Europhase, roughly 1968-74.
Oct 31, 2022 · Coming from her hotel she shares a taxi with a lovely, older tourist ( Mona Washburne) and then Lise deliberately stuffs her own passport down behind the back seat of the cab, “where it will be safe.”. The two women witness the car bombing of a foreign dignitary and Lise is driven back to her hotel by a horny mechanic who unzips his ...
105 mins. Country. Italy. Languages. Italian. English. Identikit (also known as The Driver's Seat) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. [1] Based on the 1970 novella The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, it is a psychological drama starring Elizabeth Taylor and Ian Bannen, and featuring Andy Warhol. [2]
Rent The Driver's Seat on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A woman (Elizabeth Taylor) flies to Rome on a reckless quest, not for love but for death.
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Jun 26, 2023 · Italy / West Germany 1974. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a troubled woman who, upon arriving in Rome, finds a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Never before released in the UK, The Driver’s Seat (aka Identikit) remains the most obscure, bizarre ...
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Dec 28, 2019 · December 28, 2019. 'The Driver's Seat' (1974) By 1973, Elizabeth Taylor's personal life and career were a mess. Hollywood had ushered in a new wave of young directors and emotionally accessible actors that prized naturalism, rendering the aging and puffy Taylor an uptight has-been. What's more, her private life lived largely in headlines had ...
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Jul 3, 2023 · The Driver's Seat runs to 100 text pages and is, my estimate, around 25,000 words, making it a novella to my mind. The Public Image was shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize in 1968 and Loitering with Intent repeated that feat in 1981. Technically, The Driver's Seat was also nominated, though in different circumstances.
