The Driver's Seat (film)
- Elizabeth Taylor: Lise
- Ian Bannen: Bill
- Guido Mannari: Carlo
- Mona Washbourne: Mrs. Helen Fiedke
- Maxence mail Fort Pierre
- Andy Warhol: English lord ( Cameo )
Identikit is an Italian movie ( Philosophical thesis piece, avant-garde film ) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi of Director from the year 1974. The film is an adaptation of the novel published in 1970 Kill me! ( The Driver 's Seat ) by Muriel Spark and was produced by Rizzoli film. The main role was played Elizabeth Taylor.
" Identikit " is Italian for " phantom image ".
Action
The time for action is the present. Lise, a beautiful and mysterious middle-aged American woman is with her nerves at the end and embarks on a journey to Rome. She is a woman who is desperately in their existential loneliness, and talks - because communications and human relations have become her absurd and impossible - virtually only in Dada records.
On the plane she meets the eccentric macrobiotics fan of Bill, who makes no secret of the fact that he would like to go to bed with her. Your second plane acquaintance is the introverted Pierre, who is afraid of her and her first go out of the way.
She freely gives Lise each for information that she would meet her friend in Rome, with which it - but has no fixed meeting point agreed upon, so that they always and everywhere on the lookout for him - as can be seen soon. To detect them holding a book in front of him. The audience already suspects after a short time that this friend did not exist and that Lise is in fact looking for something else entirely monstrous.
In the afternoon they wasted the common shopping with the good-natured Mrs. dahinplappernden Fiedke. Then they can take away from the Papa Gallo Carlo in the car, but even this will not meet their expectations. The despair she feels about the alienation and isolation of life, is so profound that they could no longer be mitigated by an act of love. Lise looking for a completely different, the ultimate act
The viewer soon realizes that there is this to be flashbacks in all scenes in which Lise appears. The frame story consists of a series of interrogations, which leads the overworked police with all persons with whom Lise has arrived in Rome in touch.
Production and reception
The filming of those produced in Technicolor and 35mm film took place in Munich and Rome in August and September 1973.
The film premiered on May 20, 1974 in Monaco. In the U.S., he was first seen under the international title The Driver 's Seat on 10 October 1975. In Germany the film never came in the theaters.