Elizabeth Taylor stars as a troubled woman who, upon arriving in Rome, finds a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
Introduction by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women (2022, 6 mins)
Audio commentary with curator and programmer Millie De Chirico (2022)
A Lack of Absence (2022, 22 mins): writer and literary historian Chandra Mayor on Muriel Spark and 'The Driver's Seat'
The Driver's Seat credit sequences (1974, 4 mins)
Darling, Do You Love Me? (1968, 4 mins): in a parody of her media persona, Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who pursues a man relentlessly
Waiting For... (1970, 11 mins): a woman embarks on a filmmaking project after being given a camera and told to capture her everyday reality
The Telephone (1981, 4 mins): a young woman enacts imaginative revenge on her boyfriend
National Theatre of Scotland trailer (2015, 2 mins): a promotional clip for the UK's first stage production of 'The Driver's Seat'
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