Best Scorsese-De Niro film

Rating: 9/10 (27 September 2005)

"Taxi driver" is not only one the greatest films of the Seventies, it's also the best Scorsese & De Niro production.
A Vietnam veteran, now a New York taxi driver, lives in a nightmarish loneliness. The meeting with a baby prostitute and the will of rescuing her will give him a new aim.
The movie is dramatic and passionate. It's a story of an anti-hero who wants to save another anti-heroin. Also when he tries to court another woman (Cybill Shepherd) the result is a complete disaster (look at the scenes...!), it's impossible for him to enter a "normal" world. There's an anguish sense through all the movie, underlined by Bernard Herrman score. Definitely "Taxi driver" is the momentum of the "nouvelle vague" in Hollywood movies. Actually the Seventies were the only time when big studios really allowed independent directors to do their own films. Now these two worlds are more separated than before.
This film won the "Palme d'or" at Cannes Film festival in 1976, and brought chance to Scorsese, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and (of course) Robert De Niro -the same year he made Bernardo Bertolucci's "Novecento", the year before he won an Oscar for "The Godfather part II".