'Prince of Broadway' is truly independent. Made entirely without the help of production companies and shot on a micro-budget in New York's pulsating streets, where the director Sean Baker has also recruited the film's authentic gallery of characters. Lucky is a street hustler and an immigrant from Ghana who doesn't have a green card. He successfully sells fake branded goods in the city's wholesale district, until his ex-girlfriend thrusts a child into his arms. She claims it's his son, and in one go, his life changes from being a bachelor to changing nappies, preparing baby food and, not least, taking responsibility for other people than himself. His boss, the Armenian-Lebanese immigrant Levon, doesn't have a much easier life, neither in terms of love nor in terms of his small business, as he constantly fears that his stockpile of fake bags and shoes will be confiscated. The two men's stories take shape as the small boy occupies more and more of their lives. With its raw images and his handheld camera, 'Prince of Broadway' is a vibrating, intense, and at times amusing social-realist portrait, whose saturated colours and local neighbourhoods can seem totally exotic. It's a story about what is true and what is fake in life, but the film itself is totally authentic.
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Prince of Broadway
USA, 2008, 100 min.
16:9 Video PAL
English version
Director: |
Sean Baker |
Script: |
Sean Baker, Darren Dean |
Camera: |
Sean Baker |
Sound: |
David Grohman |
Editor: |
Sean Baker |
Cast: |
Prince Adu, Karren Karagulian, Aiden Noesi |
Producer: |
Darren Dean |
Production: |
Cre Film |
Distr.: |
Sean Baker, 1228 |
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