The Driver's Seat (film)
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi |
| Produced by | Nello Meniconi Franco Rossellini |
| Written by | Raffaele La Capria Giuseppe Patroni Griffi |
| Based on | The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark |
| Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Ian Bannen Guido Mannari Mona Washbourne Luigi Squarzina Maxence Mailfort Andy Warhol |
| Music by | Franco Mannino |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
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105 mins |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian English |
The Driver's Seat (also known as Identikit) 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]
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Plot
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in Copenhagen to Rome, where she embarks on a fatal search of her own destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself – a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.
Lise meets a variety of people during her journey who include Bill, a lecherous British macrobiotics devotee that she meets on the plane to Rome who tries to seduce her; Carlo, a young man whom tries to rape her on the street; an English aristocrat (Andy Warhol) who seems dismayed to make her acquaintance, a kind and elderly woman named Mrs. Helen Fiedke (Mona Washbourne) whom Lise bonds with while shopping at Standa, a large department store; and Pierre, a young man who tries to elude her by any means possible.
The film is told in a non-linear narrative as throughout the film are scenes of the local Rome police interviewing all the people that Lise interacted with as well as investigating the reasons for her strange behavior that led up to her own murder.
Cast
- Elizabeth Taylor as Lise
- Ian Bannen as Bill
- Guido Mannari as Carlo
- Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Helen Fiedke
- Luigi Squarzina as Lead Detective
- Maxence Mailfort as Pierre
- Andy Warhol (credited: with the special participation of ) as English Lord
- Anita Bartolucci as Saleswoman
- Gino Giuseppe as Police Commissioner
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Driver's Seat at IMDb
- Copy of short note from Elizabeth Taylor to Muriel Spark about the role of Lise (National Library of Scotland archive)
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