If you want to watch a film that is not going to require much thought or concentration, then watch Taxi. The film is a very simplistic and has little complexity in terms of plot and characterisation (the characters are little more than stereotypes and the ending is an anti-climax) and you can tell the screenplay took about 10 minutes to write, but it is one of the most enjoyable films I have seen for some time. It is still very 'French' and is an easy way into 'foreign' cinema for those of us who speak no other language than English. I watched it in the same evening as 'Z' by Costas-Gavras, and found both films very similar in style (so Gallic!!)
Taxi is not the best film ever made, but you can easily escape with it for an hour or so.
Taxi is not the best film ever made, but you can easily escape with it for an hour or so.
