Country: France
Year: 2001
Duration: 90'
A crime story with a Christmas atmosphere. A couple of New York middle-class drug pushers is feverishly searching for a gift for their daughter. The present the little girl asked Santa Claus for is sold out.
Biography
film director
Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara (New York, USA, 1951) is an independent director and he is always surrounded by trusted co-workers, who have followed him throughout his career. In 1979 he directs his first full-length film, The Driller Killer, but his most important successes can be traced to the 1990s: King of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992). After letting himself be tempted by Hollywood, he returned to extremist and independent cinema, obsessed with the problem of sin, guilt and redemption. Among his latest films, Pasolini (2014) and the documentary Piazza Vittorio (2017).
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
The Driller Killer (id., 1979), Ms. 45 (L’angelo della vendetta, 1981), Fear City (Paura su Manhattan, 1984), China Girl (id., 1987), King of New York (id., 1990), Bad Lieutenant (Il cattivo tenente, 1992), Body Snatchers (Ultracorpi - L’invasione continua, 1993), Snake Eyes (Occhi di serpente, 1993), The Addiction (The Addiction - Vampiri a New York, 1995), The Funeral (Fratelli, 1996), The Blackout (Blackout, 1997), New Rose Hotel (id., 1998), ’R Xmas (Il nostro Natale, 2001), Mary (id., 2005), Go Go Tales (id., 2007), Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009), 4:44 Last Day on Earth (4:44 L’ultimo giorno sulla terra, 2011), Pasolini (2014), Alive in France (doc., 2017), Piazza Vittorio (doc., 2017).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Abel Ferrara.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Scott Prado, Abel Ferrara.
Director of photography: Ken Kelsch.
Art director: Franck De Curtis.
Costume designer: Debra Tennenbaum.
Editor: Bill Pankow, Suzanne Pillsbury, Patricia Bowers.
Sound: Jeff Pullman.
Music: Schooly D.
Cast and characters: Drea De Matteo (la moglie), Lillo Brancato, Jr. (il marito), Ice T (il rapitore), Victor Argo (Louie), Naomi Morales (la nipote), Lisa Valens (la figlia).
Production company: Pierre Kalfon per Studiocanal, 3, rue Jules Lefebvre, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45265048, fax +33-1-45263207.
Foreign sales agent: Wild Bunch, 47, rue Dumont d'Urville, 75116 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-71761000, fax +33-1-71761010.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Scott Prado, Abel Ferrara.
Director of photography: Ken Kelsch.
Art director: Franck De Curtis.
Costume designer: Debra Tennenbaum.
Editor: Bill Pankow, Suzanne Pillsbury, Patricia Bowers.
Sound: Jeff Pullman.
Music: Schooly D.
Cast and characters: Drea De Matteo (la moglie), Lillo Brancato, Jr. (il marito), Ice T (il rapitore), Victor Argo (Louie), Naomi Morales (la nipote), Lisa Valens (la figlia).
Production company: Pierre Kalfon per Studiocanal, 3, rue Jules Lefebvre, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45265048, fax +33-1-45263207.
Foreign sales agent: Wild Bunch, 47, rue Dumont d'Urville, 75116 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-71761000, fax +33-1-71761010.