Credits

SUBJECT AND SCREENPLAY:

LUC BESSON

DIRECITON:

GÉRARD PIRÈS

PRODUCED BY:

LUC BESSON, MICHELE PETIN, LAURENT PETIN PER ARP - COFIMAGE 9 - LE STUDIO CANAL + - STUDIO IMAGES - TF1 FILMS PRODUCTIONS

DISTRIBUTED BY:

CECCHI GORI

ITALIAN DIALOGUES:

MARCO METE

DUBBING DIRECTION:

SANDRO ACERBO

DUBBING ASSISTANT:

SILVIA MENOZZI

EDITING SOCIETY:

SEFIT-CDC

Voices:

SAMY NACERI:

MASSIMO DE AMBROSIS

FRÉDÉRIC DIEFENTHAL:

FABRIZIO MANFREDI

MARION COTILLARD:

ROSSELLA ACERBO

MANUELA GOURARY:

SERENA VERDIROSI

BERNARD FARCY:

GIORGIO LOPEZ

EMMA SJÖBERG:

PINELLA DRAGANI

Carlos Fuentes:

Fabio Boccanera

Italian dialogue				2
Dubbing direction				1

Taxxi
(Taxi, France 1998)

An enjoyable fast-moving film set in Marseilles with a silly policeman who, in order to defeat a gang of violent robbers, is helped by a taxi-driver with racing-car driver ambitions. The film is dubbed unfortunately in a clichéd manner rendering the spontaneity of the interpreters monotonous and not giving the film its’ potential; the voices, especially the male roles, are feigned, sometimes too exaggerated and often inadequate. Good however the mother of the policeman.

Sit-com direction of third degree: so much for a pound.

The dialogues are not brilliant, with unexpressed comical situations or otherwise painfully expressed.

Huge mistake: garage in French means mechanics/car repairs, not “garage”, which in Italian literally means “garage”/car-park.

[original review in Italian by Marnie Bannister ]