I didn’t see this when it first came out, I saw it later on at the Moving Image museum. I really dug it a lot, and liked how it was going for an 80’s sketchy movie look, like a genre thriller, albeit with higher production value from esteemed indie directors the Safdie brothers and featuring former teen idol Robert Pattinson. It’s one of those movies where everything crazy happens in one night, and Pattinson plays a bank robber trying to free his brother from jail by getting more money for his bail bond, going through the shady underworld of Queens at night, and just running into a lot of offbeat characters along the way. It just keeps getting deeper into this weirder odyssey, and I was totally into it. I also liked the neon colors too, hence why I chose this photo to illustrate my post. This film not only gave the Safdie brothers more critical acclaim, but also gave Pattinson more indie street cred post-Twilight, along with the films he did with David Cronenberg and Claire Denis.
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