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Retrospectives - Abel Ferrara
Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Marla Hanson, Chris Zois, Abel Ferrara
DOP: Ken Kelsch
Production: Cipa, Les Films Number One, MDP Worldwide
Screenplay: Marla Hanson, Chris Zois, Abel Ferrara
DOP: Ken Kelsch
Production: Cipa, Les Films Number One, MDP Worldwide
Matty is a film star who is tired of Hollywood life and moves to Miami, where he makes a proposal to his girlfriend Annie. She is not ready to marry him, and it is revealed that she had an abortion. Depressed because he lost his baby (though it was him who initially asked for abortion), Matty, together with his friend Micky, go on a wild night, they meet a waitress also called Annie and in the end of the night Matty passes out. A year and a half later Matty lives in New York, leads a clean life visiting AA meetings and has a relationship with attractive blonde Susan. He is still obsessed with Annie and returns to Miami, where unexpected news waits for him...
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Cast:
Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Béatrice Dalle, Sarah Lassez, Dennis Hopper, Steven Bauer -
Original Title:
The Blackout -
Country:
United States of America, France -
Year:
1997 - 98'
Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Marla Hanson, Chris Zois, Abel Ferrara
DOP: Ken Kelsch
Production: Cipa, Les Films Number One, MDP Worldwide
Screenplay: Marla Hanson, Chris Zois, Abel Ferrara
DOP: Ken Kelsch
Production: Cipa, Les Films Number One, MDP Worldwide
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.