The Driver
Summary:
Walter Hill's stripped down neo-noir features a protagonist who makes the laconic boxer of the director's similar Hard Times (1974) seem logorrheic by comparison. The film's tone is set in the opening scene as the Driver (Ryan O'Neal) gloms a V-8 sedan and proceeds to whip through claustrophobic parking garages, narrow alleyways, and sundry other high-risk macadam, as he d... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Ryan O'Neal - (The Driver)
Bruce Dern - (The Detective)
Isabelle Adjani - (The Player)
Ronee Blakely - (The Connection)
Matt Clark - (Red Plain Clothesman)
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Review:
Walter Hill has always used myth and archetype as the backbone of his films but in this beautifully made existential noir he takes this approach as far as he ever has, eliminating any hint of psychology or sociology, even denying the characters any names. In a film that seems an odd marriage of Bresson and Hemingway, the blank-faced O... Continue >>
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