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In 1993, between a stroll through Central Park, some last minute shopping and a visit to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a family like many others prepares to celebrate Christmas. She is Puerto-Rican, he is Dominican, and they came to the mainland to pursue the American dream the only way they know how: drug trafficking, which they carry out with a businesslike detachment. The work is hard, rife with gangs and both territorial and racial restrictions. During a “business meeting”, the husband is kidnapped by a rival gang. His wife searches for every one of her husband’s partners, employees and debtors, but it is Christmas and everyone is out of town. The gangster puts more and more pressure on her, and a strange relationship blossoms between the two.
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Cast:
Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Ice-T, Victor Argo, Naomi Morales, Lisa Valens, Janis Corsair, Frank Cuervo, Nelson Vasquez -
Original Title:
'R Xmas -
Country:
United States of America, France -
Year:
2001 - 85'
Director
Abel Ferrara
Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.
