Another nice forgotten surprise!
Directed and written by Alex Winter, beautiful Cinematography by Joe DeSalvo
with Music by Joe Delia
The film stars Henry Thomas
as artist Nick Parker, David O'Hara
as Will, Teri Hatcher
as Nick's gallery owning sister Charlotte Parker, Bill Duke
as NYPD Detective Glass, Sándor Técsy as
Sidney Miskiewicz, Irma St. Paule as
Mrs. Rhula Miskiewicz, Alex Kilgore
as Adam Dennis, Marisol Padilla Sánchez
as
Soledad, Patricia Dunnock
as Sophie Parker, Helen Hanft
as Louisa, Remak Ramsay
as Richard Parker, Lisby Larson
as Eleanor Parker, and Jon Tracy as
Leonard Wooley.
Greenpoint Brooklyn. Nick Parker. A starving artist. Lives in a shit hole tenement. A five floor walkup. Comes from money. Sister Charlotte owns a chichi gallery. According to Nick she hangs shit. He rejects his connections. Works as an art teacher. Life Drawing. He's screwing his nude model Soledad. Life is workable. Then the shit hits the fan.
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| The Twin Towers |
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| Nick Parker (Henry Thomas) |
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| Nick with Sidney Miskiewicz (Sándor Técsy) and Rhula Miskiewicz (Irma St. Paule) |
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| Nicks Flop |
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| Nicks upstairs neighbor Will (David O'Hara) |
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| Life Drawing Class |
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| Nick and Soledad (Marisol Padilla Sánchez) |
The trigger is the brutal murder of his landlord Sidney Miskiewicz.
This murder crosses wires in Nick's delicately balanced mind. From this point on are we watching reality or Nick's paranoid hallucinations. Director Winter and cinematographer DeSalvo do an excellent job of using all the stylistic tools of Classic Noir to give us a grimy dilapidated atmosphere of obsession and alienation using a dingy Hopperesque pallet of sick greens and entrail reds. The effect achieves a foreboding sense of dread.
Nicks world is spiralling into Noirsville.
Noirsville
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| Charlotte Parker (Teri Hatcher) |
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| Bill Duke as NYPD Detective Glass |
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| Red Birds IRT |
Henry Thomas really sells the character through his body movements, posture and facial expressions. David O'Hara is a natural as your typical overly conflicted baggage carrying Irish nut job. Teri Hatcher and Marisol Padilla Sanchez offer Nick some stability. Sándor Técsy and Irma St. Paule are convincing as the eccentric ethnic mother and son landlords.
Bill Duke plays the complaisant, seen it all before NYPD detective. New York City with its garish Jersey chemical refinery, induced sunsets compliments Nick Parkers psychotic and melancholy laden environment. 7/10
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