Metal and Melancholy

Metal and Melancholy

80 mins | Documentary | March 31, 1994

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.

Metal and Melancholy

80 mins | Documentary | March 31, 1994

Metal and Melancholy
This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers Ariel Film
Original title Metaal en melancholie
Directors Heddy Honigmann
Writers Heddy Honigmann, Peter Delpeut

Cast

Jorge Rodríguez Paz

as Himself - Taxi driver