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Restless City
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 9, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Screen Media

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 119
Rating: C- -- Beautiful but inert, Restless City is like a grimy lost verse of Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' -- a film concerned with locating the quiet nobility in hand-to-mouth existence, and celebrating struggle for self-betterment via dollar bills, y'all. Full Review
Shockya.com
Apr 28, 2012
Rating: 2/5 -- In its portrait of a "Restless City" the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5 -- 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. Full Review
New York Times
Apr 26, 2012
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned. Full Review
Slant Magazine
May 1, 2012
Restless City looks gorgeous, but has nothing to say. Full Review
Boston Phoenix
Aug 16, 2012
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... Full Review
Village Voice
Apr 24, 2012
Rating: 3/4 -- "Restless City" possesses a poetic, contemplative sensibility as attuned to the vagrant beauty of polyglot urban life as to its chaotic unpredictability. Full Review
Washington Post
May 4, 2012

Product Description:

The lives of African immigrants making their way on the rough and tumble streets of New York City inspired this independent drama. Djibril (Sy Alassane) is a 21-year-old man who has recently left Senegal for a new life in Manhattan. While Djibril once pursued a career as a musician, in New York he's too busy scouring the city for a job and keeping himself afloat to devote much time to his art. As sidetracked as Djibril may be, he can't help but notice Trini (Sky Grey), a beautiful fellow immigrant who lives in his neighborhood, and the two find themselves falling in love. However, Trini makes her living as a streetwalker, and she is currently under the thumb of Bekay (Anthony Okungbowa), a mean-spirited pimp and loan shark; Djibril wants to take Trini away from Bekay so they can find happiness together, but this is a dangerous and difficult task. RESTLESS CITY was the first feature film from writer and director Andrew Dosunmu; the film was an official selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

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  • Sales Rank: 52,661
  • UPC: 814838012353
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