Basically, taxis are to cinema what water is to life on earth: an essential element without which no encounter or chase could take place.
From
Taxi Driver
to
Miss Daisy and her driver
, via
Le Taxi mauve, Taxi Tehran
by Jafar Panahi, or even the
Taxi
saga initiated by Gérard Pirès, these vehicles populate films around the world like so many promising messengers of action, emotion or drama.
A Beautiful Race
by Christian Carion (
Merry Christmas
) is no exception to this narrative pattern.
It all starts with an exasperated Parisian driver (Dany Boon) who honks his horn furiously in front of the suburban house of an old lady who has called him for "a nice run" as it is called in the jargon of the profession.
Line Renaud enters the stage as in the theater.
Imperial and mischievous, this sparkling-eyed nonagenarian embodies an old lady who has to leave her home to go to a retirement home.
The taxi serves as a funny place for a meeting…
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