The Purple Taxi
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FrenchUn taxi mauve
Directed byYves Boisset
Based onUn taxi mauve
by Michel Déon
Produced byCatherine Winter
StarringCharlotte Rampling
Peter Ustinov
Fred Astaire
Edward Albert
CinematographyTonino Delli Colli
Edited byAlbert Jurgenson
Music byPhilippe Sarde
Distributed byParaFrance Films
Release date
21 May 1977
Running time
120 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
Ireland
LanguageFrench

The Purple Taxi (French: Un taxi mauve, lit. 'A mauve taxi') is a 1977 French-Irish-Italian film directed by Yves Boisset, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Michel Déon. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Production

Filmed on location between October 1976 and January 1977 in Lismore, County Waterford, Kenmare, County Kerry and at Cork Airport.[2] Filming also took place at Ardmore Studios.[3][4]

Plot

The film is about a group of emotionally troubled expatriates living in a self-imposed exile in a small village (Eyeries) on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. The cast includes Peter Ustinov, Charlotte Rampling, Agostina Belli, Philippe Noiret, Edward Albert and, somewhat eccentrically cast as a small-town Irish physician, Fred Astaire.

Film score

The film's score was performed by The Chieftains.[5]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Purple Taxi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  2. ^ Flynn, Arthur (1996). Irish Film 100 Years. ISBN 9781900505406.
  3. ^ "Fred Astaire movie to be shown in West Cork, 40 years after being filmed in the region". Irish Examiner. August 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Rockett, Kevin (1996). The Irish Filmography: Fiction Films, 1896-1996. ISBN 9780952669807.
  5. ^ Canby, Vincent (February 19, 1982). "1977 'PURPLE TAXI'" – via NYTimes.com.

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