The Driver's Seat (film)

Identikit
The Driver's Seat
Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Produced by Nello Meniconi
Franco Rossellini
Written by Muriel Spark (novel)
Raffaele La Capria
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
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
Release date
 20 May 1974
Running time
 105 mins
Country Italy
Language Italian
English

Identikit (also known as The Driver's Seat) is a 1974 film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.

Based on the novella The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, it is a psychological drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen and featuring Andy Warhol.

Plot

Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal 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 and stay in Rome whom include Bill, a lecherous British businessman that she meets on the plane to Rome who tries to seduce her; Carlo, a young man whom Lise tries to know more about; an elderly Englishwoman named Mrs. Fiedke whom Lise bonds with to go shopping; and Pierre, a Frenchman who picks up Lise hoping to seduce her as well.

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

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