Country: USA
Year: 1982
Duration: 90'
Four young “hustlers” use a hotel room near the 42th street, in New York, for their activities. One of them has a thing for a twelve-years-old boy. During the night, he leaves him in the room. Another of the group, a heroin addict, wants to sell the boy to a businessman of the East Side, to earn the money he needs to close a deal with some blacks. But the boy takes too much drug and dies in his bed. The four guys and their pimp decide to sell him anyway, hoping that the buyer won’t notice that he is dead.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala - English translation Francesca Sala
Biography
film director
Paul Morrissey
Paul Morrissey was born in New York in 1939. He started as an independent filmmaker, in the first years of the 60s. Later he joins Andy Warhol’s Factory, producing many of his films, included Chelsea Girl, which was honored to be invited at Cannes in 1967, but it was never screened because of its length and its indecency. In 1968 he started working as a director, with his first feature film, Flesh.
1961-1965: director of many underground short films. 1968: Flesh. 1970: Trash. 1971: Heat. 1972: Women in Revolt. 1973: L’Amour (with Andy Warhol). 1974: Flesh for Frankenstein (with Anthony M. Dawson). 1975: Blood for Dracula (with Anthony M. Dawson). 1980: The Hound of the Baskerville. 1981: Madame Wang’s. 1982: Forty Deuce.
Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala
FILMOGRAFIA
1961-1965: regista di numerosi film underground a cortometraggio. 1968: Flesh. 1970: Trash (Trash, i rifiuti di New York). 1971: Heat (Calore). 1972: Women in Revolt. 1973: L'Amour (con Andy Warhol). 1974: Flesh for Frankenstein (Il mostro è in tavola... barone Frankenstein, con Anthony M. Dawson). 1975: Blood for Dracula (Dracula cerca sangue di vergine e... morì di sete, con Anthony M. Dawson). 1980: The Hound of the Baskerville (Il mastino dei Baskerville). 1981: Madame Wang's. 1982: Forty Deuce.
Declaration
film director
Even if nature is debauched, it finds emptiness repulsive. In a city like New York, where people live and die in the toilets and every behavior is free from any restriction, the criminals have to punish themselves when someone breaks their rules. The characters of the story are chained to a destiny that they built with their own hands, trapped in a room with the corpse of a kid. It seemed fair to take the audience in that room, to proof that that was the only way and there wasn’t any other way out.
Paul Morrissey
Cast
& Credits
Director: Paul Morrissey.
Screenplay: dalla commedia di Alan Bowne, adattamento di Paul Morrissey.
Director of photography: Steven Fierberg, François Reichenbach (35mm, colore).
Music: Manu Dibango.
Editor: Ken Eluto.
Sound: Larry Scharf.
Cast and characters: Orson Bean (Mr. Roper), Kevin Bacon (Ricky), Mark Keyloun (Blow), Tommy Citera (Crank), Carol Jean Lewis (lo spacciatore di coca), Esai Morales (Mitchell), Bo Rukher (il secondo spacciatore di cocaina), Harris Laskawy (Augie).
Producer: Jean Jacques Fourgeaud per la Island Pictures
Screenplay: dalla commedia di Alan Bowne, adattamento di Paul Morrissey.
Director of photography: Steven Fierberg, François Reichenbach (35mm, colore).
Music: Manu Dibango.
Editor: Ken Eluto.
Sound: Larry Scharf.
Cast and characters: Orson Bean (Mr. Roper), Kevin Bacon (Ricky), Mark Keyloun (Blow), Tommy Citera (Crank), Carol Jean Lewis (lo spacciatore di coca), Esai Morales (Mitchell), Bo Rukher (il secondo spacciatore di cocaina), Harris Laskawy (Augie).
Producer: Jean Jacques Fourgeaud per la Island Pictures
