Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Welcome to New York


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Abel Ferrara's made a new movie, loosely based around a scandal involving a prominent french politician and an unsuspecting housekeeper. The opening contains some wild and pretty graphic sex scenes. GĂ©rard Depardieu really gets into this dark character and it's not exactly pleasant to watch. The latter half becomes more of a character study as he's placed under house arrest. It's a little slow and a little long but there's some great naturalistic performances. I can only presume some of the peripheral cast were the genuine article working unscripted because it has that kind of realism. 

A good and unsettling character study.

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