Drive

Summary

Set entirely inside an automobile on a Los Angeles freeway, Drive features two men who are making the daily ninety-minute commute to their downtown computer jobs. As the driver rants over the current state of American society, the passenger laments a lost love. [CP]

This film won the 1991 Venice Film Festival International Critics Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Sweden's Arctic Light Film Festival. It also opened The American Independent Film Retrospective at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Written by Colin Macleod, Edited by Lauren Zuckerman.

Comments

Out of the mainstream and well into the "art" genre, this is a gem of a film. The pervading mood is set through the passenger and his reveries of lost love which are offset by the interminable diatribe of his host driver. Both the passenger, and you, are "driven to distraction" by the driver and his horrid check jacket, his enormous drinking mug, the ants, and... great-balls-of-fire! What is this film about? Figure it yourself - it is good cinema.

Dedee appears to superb effect in mostly silent flashback sequences where she plays directly to camera the passenger's forlorn relationship.

Video clips

As the driver drives, the passenger daydreams.