Summer of Sam (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col 142m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
During the Summer of 1977 New York City is plagued by the shootings of mostly brunette women on the streets at night. One Bronx neighbourhood in particular is viewed in close-up against a background of record temperatures and mounting paranoia.
Review:
In fact what promises to be a very similar film structurally to Do the Right Thing (qv.), devotes most of its screen time to the marriage of a cheating hairdresser and his waitress wife, and the former's friendship with a punk convertee, complete with English accent. Much of the action revolves around their sexual hangups, as if the serial killer is a scourge for the loose mores of the disco era. Lee frames the film with a rather arch quotation of Dassin's 'six million stories in the naked city: this is one of them'.
Country: US
Technical: col 142m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
During the Summer of 1977 New York City is plagued by the shootings of mostly brunette women on the streets at night. One Bronx neighbourhood in particular is viewed in close-up against a background of record temperatures and mounting paranoia.
Review:
In fact what promises to be a very similar film structurally to Do the Right Thing (qv.), devotes most of its screen time to the marriage of a cheating hairdresser and his waitress wife, and the former's friendship with a punk convertee, complete with English accent. Much of the action revolves around their sexual hangups, as if the serial killer is a scourge for the loose mores of the disco era. Lee frames the film with a rather arch quotation of Dassin's 'six million stories in the naked city: this is one of them'.
Country: US
Technical: col 142m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Ben Gazzara
Synopsis:
During the Summer of 1977 New York City is plagued by the shootings of mostly brunette women on the streets at night. One Bronx neighbourhood in particular is viewed in close-up against a background of record temperatures and mounting paranoia.
Review:
In fact what promises to be a very similar film structurally to Do the Right Thing (qv.), devotes most of its screen time to the marriage of a cheating hairdresser and his waitress wife, and the former's friendship with a punk convertee, complete with English accent. Much of the action revolves around their sexual hangups, as if the serial killer is a scourge for the loose mores of the disco era. Lee frames the film with a rather arch quotation of Dassin's 'six million stories in the naked city: this is one of them'.