The Purple Taxi

The Purple Taxi
The Purple Taxi
	Theatrical release poster
French	Un taxi mauve
Directed by	Yves Boisset
Based on	Un taxi mauve; by Michel Déon
Produced by	Catherine Winter
Starring	Charlotte Rampling; Peter Ustinov; Fred Astaire; Edward Albert
Cinematography	Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by	Albert Jurgenson
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Distributed by	ParaFrance Films
Release date	21 May 1977
Running time	120 minutes
Countries	France; Italy; Ireland
Language	French

The Purple Taxi (French: Un taxi mauve, lit. 'A mauve taxi') is a 1977 French-Irish-Italian film directed by Yves Boisset, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Michel Déon. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Production

Filmed on location between October 1976 and January 1977 in Lismore, County Waterford, Kenmare, County Kerry and at Cork Airport.[2] Filming also took place at Ardmore Studios.[3][4]

The film is about a group of emotionally troubled expatriates living in a self-imposed exile in a small village (Eyeries) on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. The cast includes Peter Ustinov, Charlotte Rampling, Agostina Belli, Philippe Noiret, Edward Albert and, somewhat eccentrically cast as a small-town Irish physician, Fred Astaire.

The film's score was performed by The Chieftains.[5]

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