
Isolated ex-marine Travis Bickle applies for a job as a taxi driver, hoping that the nocturnal working pattern will alleviate the effects of his insomnia and distract him from his gnawing depression. But ferrying passengers through the seedy underbelly of night-time New York City only compounds Bickle's psychological dislocation from the world around him. His nightshifts in the cab are spent resenting those he sees, while his waking daytime hours are wasted away in the gloom of adult movie theatres.
After entering into a troubled relationship with a political campaigner and embarking on a fraught mission to save a teenager from the world of prostitution, Bickle's sense of place and purpose steadily warps. He withdraws into himself, hordes illegal firearms and begins a regimen of intense physical training in preparation for a misguided vigilante assault on the evils of society.
Isolated ex-marine Travis Bickle applies for a job as a taxi driver, hoping that the nocturnal working pattern will alleviate the effects of his insomnia and distract him from his gnawing depression. But ferrying passengers through the seedy underbelly of night-time New York City only compounds Bickle's psychological dislocation from the world around him. His nightshifts in the cab are spent resenting those he sees, while his waking daytime hours are wasted away in the gloom of adult movie theatres.
After entering into a troubled relationship with a political campaigner and embarking on a fraught mission to save a teenager from the world of prostitution, Bickle's sense of place and purpose steadily warps. He withdraws into himself, hordes illegal firearms and begins a regimen of intense physical training in preparation for a misguided vigilante assault on the evils of society.
Country
City/Town
Cinema
Date
Australia
Canberra
National Film & Sound Archive
27 February
Denmark
Frederikssund
Park Teatret - Danish Film Institute
14 December
Denmark
Holte
Reprise Teatret - Danish Film Institute
30 December
France
Marseille
SARL Pradex
28 January
Germany
Dortmund
KINO im U - Dortmunder U
21 January
Netherlands
Schiedam
Wenneker Cinema - Stichting filmhuis Schiedam
22 December
New Zealand
Christchurch
Lumiere Cinemas
23 December
Sweden
Malmo
Bio Spegeln
20 January - 24 January
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Sweden
Gothenberg
Bio Roy - Bio Roy i Göteborg AB
21 January - 29 January
Sweden
Malmo
Bio Spegeln
25 January - 31 January
Sweden
Stockholm
Bio Roy i Göteborg AB
29 January
United Kingdom
London
BFI Southbank
7 January - 25 January