Gazing Longingly at Manhattan
di Andy Webster The New York Times
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 characters, all gazing longingly at Manhattan, are archetypes of a sort. [...]
di Andy Webster, articolo completo (1812 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Novembre 2009
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