Almost 50 years ago, this masterpiece with Robert De Niro led to a confrontation at the skin festival

On February 8, 1976, the taxi driver was transferred to New York at a revision and then left the American territory the next day. Only a few months later he was selected at the 29th Festival in the competition, the President of which is the author of the jury and the author of the script by Tennessee Williams. In his jury, we meet, especially Costa-Gavra, Charlotte Ramping or Hungarian Director Andrew Kovats.

The film is controversial

Robert de Niro comes for the second time at the Cannes Film Festival, after the average streets of Martin Scorsese, which was presented to fifteen directors two years ago. These two people come along with a taxi driver, the third American film of the competition during the flight of Jerry Shatzberg and the next stop, Greenwich’s village of Paul Mazurski.

But during the presentation, the taxi driver is divided by violence. We criticize the scorsese, By the way the mask and penAmbiguity on this topic. Some in the films see confirmation of violence, while others are convincingly.

Hotes and Bravos

Scorsese traveled to Harvey Keithel and Robert de Niro, and Trio quickly struck the hotel. He learned that Tennessee Williams hated his film, the director returning to the United States to work with his next film, New York, New York, again with De Niro. He then neglects that the festival will win the most prestigious award.

When the taxi driver receives Palme D’Or, the whole team left the movie except Michael Phillips. He is the one who restores the price on stage, there again in a split room as he Trust Years later: “Half of the audience was standing and applauding, and the other half Hout.”

When he was released in France on June 2, 1976, the taxi driver will have a total of 2.69 million access and will be assigned to four Oscars: Best Film, Best Actor for Niro, Best Female Support for Jodi Foster and Best Music for Bernard Herman.