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Le New Yorker (1998)
7/10
A Romantic Dark Comedy
13 September 2008
Forgotten little film has an alternate 80's-early 90's feel with washed out visuals and characters full of vague unrealized yearnings. Reminded me of "All the Vermeers in New York."

Alfred comes to New York to move in with a woman he met casually in Paris. "I came to infiltrate the American middle-class." She of course can hardly remember who he is. He tries to win her through various strategems un-deterred and unfazed by immigration problems, theft, homelessness etc. until he runs into some mobsters that put him in charge of a mansion in Long Island and a savage rotweiler. The cinematography of New York in winter is superb, but the acting strictly amateur.

Not great, but unexpectedly appealing none the less if you give it a chance.

Now on DVD.
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5/10
Exploitation with unusual perspective on Manson
1 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
What I like about this film, and what puts it above other Manson-based exploitation works such as "The Helter Skelter Murders" for instance, is the "sympathy" the film makers clearly have towards the cult, and the point of view that the "straight" cult victims who are depicted as complete degenerates are as parasitic towards the freaks as the freaks are on straight society.

The film ends with a montage of Moon, who escapes the police, giving the finger to various symbols of Americana. It's hard not to join in. Not a great film, but an interesting perspective. Has great early 70's shots of St. Marks Place for New Yorkers.
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