Anno | 2009 |
Genere | Drammatico |
Produzione | Francia, USA |
Regia di | James DeMonaco |
Attori | Dominic Fumusa, Larry Mitchell, Ian Brennan, Jeremy Schwartz, Bill Cwikowski, Mary Dimino, Bob Colletti, David Vadim, John Sharian J.D. Daniels, Lynn Cohen, Maggie Moore, Seymour Cassel, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, Rosemary De Angelis, Justin Rodgers Hall, Adrian Martinez, Michael Hogan, Dennis Albanese, Tom Stratford. |
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"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.