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- Kim Gyngell, Paul Chubb, Barry Dickins
- Brian Mckenzie
1987. ( 1987) Country. Australia. Language. English. Budget. AU $120,000 [1] With Love to the Person Next to Me is a 1987 film directed by Brian McKenzie and starring Kym Gyngell.
Brian McKenzie. Genre. Drama. Original Language. English. Runtime. 1h 38m. Advertise With Us. A Melbourne taxi driver eases his loneliness by secretly tape-recording his passengers' conversations.
- Drama
- Kym Gyngell
- Brian Mckenzie
With Love to the Person Next to Me: Directed by Brian McKenzie. With Kim Gyngell, Paul Chubb, Barry Dickins, Sally McKenzie. Wallace is a Melbourne taxi driver who lives in a block of run-down small apartments in St Kilda on the bay.
- (32)
- Drama
- Brian McKenzie
- 1987-06
Wallace is a Melbourne taxi driver who lives in a block of run-down small apartments in St Kilda on the bay. When not driving his cab, he makes apple cider and broods about his past.
The MIFF synopsis suggests With Love to the Person Next to Me might be a long-lost entry in the sigma cinema canon with descriptions of its brooding taxi driver protagonist, his voyeuristic recordings and an ambivalent girlfriend, but it actually ends up being a rather lighthearted tale of life in 80s St Kilda that feels like a natural continuation of McKenzie's documentary roots. Far from some Travis Bickle-esque voyeur totally isolated from society, Wallace is an amiable Melbourne bloke ...
Wallace is a taxi-driver whose life has stalled; he is without relationships, work, or even prospects of friends. Using a concealed recorder, he begins taping the conversations of his passengers. But rather than bringing him solace, the constant stream of suffering becomes an oppressive burden he can neither understand nor cope with. With subtlety and surprising humour, the film explores a world of marginal characters and the responsibility we all have to the people around us.
