Welcome to New York
The career-imploding misadventures of former IMF chief (and presumptive French presidential candidate) Dominique Strauss-Kahn get filtered through the uniquely lurid prism of director Abel Ferrara in Welcome to New York, a bluntly powerful provocation that begins as a kind of tabloid melodrama and gradually evolves into a fraught study of addiction, narcissism and the lava flow of capitalist privilege. Although Ferrara and co-screenwriter Chris Zois have changed the characters names more to protect themselves than anyone's supposed innocence and tacked on a lengthy pre-film disclaimer, Welcome to New York leaves few doubts about what the filmmakers think really happened on the morning of 14 May 2011, when Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced himself sexually on Guinean housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo in Manhattans Sofitel Hotel&.
Year: 2014
Genre: Drama, Film Festivals 2014
Country: France, USA
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset
Duration: 125 Minutes
Rating: R18 - Sexual violence and sex scenes
5.4/10
Location in store: Drama
AVAILABILITY
DVD AVAILABLE NOW!
Permanent Collection
For in-store pickup reservations please call 03 3650 615
ALICE ALSO SUGGESTS:
Boiler Room (2000)
Life and Debt (2001)
The Take (2004)
In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts (2006)
Maxed Out (2005)
The Ascent of Money (2008)
Margin Call (2011)
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
The Fifth Estate (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
