The Kiss

I suppose you might call this the taxi driver’s story.

He picks up a small man in a hurry and drives him to a large cemetery, where a smartly dressed girl is waiting. Briefly, they kiss. The girl takes the taxi, while the man strides off into the overgrown graveyard.

The girl is weeping and the taxi driver asks, “You alright, love?” She doesn’t answer. He drops her off at a place in the street where people have left flowers for two hit-and-run victims.

The film has been carefully storyboarded and director Biyi Bandele’s use of the pan shot is most effective. The acting appears oddly formal, hardly alive, although Rosie Fellner cries real tears and Nick Lloyd Webber’s score is… haunting.