The Driver's Seat
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Features
• Restored
• Original recording remastered
• Color
• Full Screen
• Digital Sound
• NTSC
In Theaters : 10 October, 1975
DVD Release : 01 July, 2003 |
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The Driver's Seat Customer Reviews
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Pretentious Arty Trash
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| "The Driver's Seat" is pure arty trash, pretentious, boring and smugly self-conscious, a blatant exploitation of Elizabeth Taylor in which she was obviously a willing participant. Someone was smoking something when they concocted this one, but it's a-typical of the sort of stuff that tried hard to shock and be esoteric during the 70's. The plot, such as it is, concerns a woman sought by the police who wanders around, looking for the right man to kill her. Anyone who doesn't know what "going south" means might not realize her intent at first, but unless they're a diehard Elizabeth Taylor fan, I can't imagine they would care one way or the other what she's up to. Basically Taylor is in her "strange" phase, the anti-MGM star, and here she is becoming blowsy and given to wild and tasteless patterns in clothes and frizzy hair, her milieu during this period along with kaftans, but even when shrieking like a harridan or filmed with unforgiving, show-every-bump-on-the-complexion lighting (as is the case here), Taylor is still an amazingly beautiful woman on a scale that few have ever come close to. This is not one of her better performances, however; it is an excuse to show her clutching her own breasts and writhing on a bed and rolling around in seedy encounters with equally seedy men who spout such "clever" lines as, "I need my daily orgasm" and being as weird and self-indulgent as possible. Andy Warhol even makes an appearance. About as deep as a night at Studio 54 and every bit as banal. Only for those who like Elizabeth Taylor at her strangest or who have a prurient curiosity about seeing the actress in a see-through bra in one scene. She has been served better in other films, trust me. A bomb and a bore. |
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