A BRILLIANT SOCIAL SATIRE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "AMADEUS"
"A GRINDER DISSECTION OF THE GENERATIONAL CONFLICT."
RELEASE
Larry Tyne tries to chase away his anxieties by undergoing hypnosis sessions, and his wife Lynn plays her role as a middle-class New York housewife perfectly. On several occasions, their daughter Jeannie runs away to join a group of young people gathered around alternative ideals such as folk music, sexual liberation and soft drugs. When Larry goes to track her down through Manhattan, he discovers a whole deviant population and experiences new worlds and new places…
Milos Forman's ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ) first film in the United States, Taking Off is a bittersweet satire of early 1970s society and its generational conflict. Following the parents of a young runaway, the film paints a scathing portrait of New York's bourgeois milieu, overwhelmed by the pulse of the times but dying to dip its lips in it. With its delirious vigor and its many musical sequences, Taking Off is a symbol of independent cinema, made in the midst of the hippie movement.
TAKING OFF by Milos Forman
(1971 - Colors - 89 min)
Original version with French subtitles + French version
DVD Edition
SUPPLEMENTS
. PREFACE BY LUC LAGIER (6 mins)
. BEFORE "TAKING OFF": MILOS FORMAN ON THE ROAD TO AMERICA (30 mins)
With emotion, Milos Forman recounts the beginning of his career in Soviet Czechoslovakia and the genesis of Taking Off between France and the United States.
. TWO EUROPEANS IN NEW YORK (16 mins)
Jean-Claude Carrière, who co-wrote Taking Off with Milos Forman, recalls their meeting and their unique experience of hippie New York.
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DVD 9 • RESTORED MASTER • PAL • MPEG-2 ENCODING
Original Version / French Version Dolby Digital 1.0 • French Subtitles
1.85 format respected • 16/9 compatible 4/3 • Colors • Film duration: 89 mins
