Taxi Blues
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2009
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Koch Lorber Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Piotr Mamonov | |
| Performer: | Piotr Zaitchenko, Natalia Koliakanova, Vladimir Kachpour, Hal Singer & Elena Saphonova | |
| Directed by | Pavel Lounguine | |
| Edited by | Elizabeth Guido | |
| Screenwriting by | Pavel Lounguine | |
| Composition by | Vladimir Chekassine | |
| Produced by | Marin Karmitz | |
| Director of Photography: | Denis Evstigneev |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1990 -
Best Director: Pavel Lounguine
Entertainment Reviews:
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...Superb tragicomedy....Robust and even buoyant...
New York Times
Rating: 7/10 --
Hits some joyful notes even while playing a somber tune.
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Movie Metropolis
...A caustic comedy of startling originality....TAXI BLUES is a true social satire. Its wit is both revealing and wounding...
Rolling Stone
Rating: C- --
Taxi Blues is all hyperbolic atmosphere; it's one garish, semi-improvisatory big scene after another. But the bald, glowering Mamanov -- who's a rock star in the Soviet Union -- performs with a desperate, bebop fervor that's hard to forget.
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Entertainment Weekly
...Sensational....There's a typical mournful Russian quality to TAXI BLUES: a soulful melancholia that recalls Dostoevsky or Gorky. But the movie also resonates with something alien and wild...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
It is clear from the energy in the story that Lounguine has been waiting a long time to get his hands on the camera, and his point of view swoops and soars through Moscow like a bird released from its cage.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
This ironic look at daily life in Russia's black market economy centers on a workaholic taxi driver pushed to break out of his self-imposed limitations by an irritating -- but fancy-free -- Jazz musician. Winner, Best Director, Cannes Film Festival.
Description by Koch Entertainment Distribution:
When Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is stiffed for a fare by Lyosha, a Jewish musician, the two form a bizarre love-hate relationship in this darkly comedic look at Moscow in the post-glasnost era. At first, class and race division make friendship for these two nearly impossible, until they both learn they aren't so different after all.
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