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- 2012
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- 1 h 20 m
- 2012
- R
- ARRAY
- 1 h 20 m
Summary Restless City tells the story of an Africa immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle, and falling in love is his greatest risk. (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement)
Directed By: Andrew Dosunmu
Written By: Eugene M. Gussenhoven
- 2012
- R
- ARRAY
- 1 h 20 m
- 2012
- R
- ARRAY
- 1 h 20 m
Restless City
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Summary Restless City tells the story of an Africa immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle, and falling in love is his greatest risk. (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement)
Directed By: Andrew Dosunmu
Written By: Eugene M. Gussenhoven
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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In this intense twist on the American Dream, director Andrew Dosunmu vividly captures the pulsating dynamic of New York city's pan-African community, a robust aggregation that subsists amid an often hostile foreign environment.
With Dosunmu, African culture thrives in a demographically shifting but historically African-American part of town. If the idea is that Nollywood could work in Manhattan, this is the director who can show us how.
Told in an elliptical style with a pacing and jagged rhythms that take some getting used to, the thrust and power of the film lies in its poetic imagery.
Picture's visual elegance makes a limited arthouse life possible, although Nigerian-born fashion photog-turned-helmer Andrew Dosunmu is far more interested in aesthetics than narrative in erecting his visually poetic "City."
The script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned.
Mr. Dosunmu seems to have directed all his actors to pause before delivering lines, giving a languor to the film that comes to feel studied.
In its portrait of a Restless City the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers.
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Production Company
Clam Productions
Release Date Apr 27, 2012
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating R
Awards
Dubai International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
