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Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver
50 years after Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or, we revisit Colin L. Westerbeck Jr’s analysis of the connections between Scorsese’s film and Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties. From our Summer 1976 issue.
By Colin L. Westerbeck Jr.
Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver