Staten Island

"Little New York" : Le truand vert En version originale ce film s'appelle Staten Island, du nom du cinquième et méconnu borough de la ville de New York. Cette verte banlieue semble à des années-lumière des jungles de la métropole et pourtant on y trouve les mêmes prédateurs. Dont Parmie Tarzo (Vincent d'Onofrio), cadre local de la mafia. En s'intéressant à ses petites affaires de racket, le film [...] Vai alla recensione »

The writer-director James DeMonaco is a native Staten Islander, and if his film “Staten Island, New York” is an ode to what it calls “the forgotten stepchild of Manhattan,” it is a barbed and quirky one. Using a nonlinear, Tarantino-esque narrative, Mr. DeMonaco adroitly weaves violence, absurdity and sentiment, even an environmental consciousness, into a modest, appealing fable.

The criss-crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer-director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw "Staten Island" wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time-bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino ( "Pulp Fiction") and Sidney Lumet ("Before the Devil Knows You're Dead") among scores of others.