Last Exit To Brooklyn
The movie tells some stories that happens in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
8 October 1948, Bell, California, USA
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
28 July 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1950, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
November 25, 2010
German director Eli Edel has fashioned a grim yet coherent and extremely well acted tale out of Hubert Selby's 1964 collection of short stories about misfits, criminals and outsiders in Brooklyn's Red Hook, circa 1952.
February 07, 2003
The pockmarked buildings have a peeling grayness, as if some forgotten battle had been waged there and dulled everything in its wake.
September 07, 2011
For the most part, Edel captures the harrowing grim tone of the book and the compassion the author had for his unsympathetic flawed characters.
March 08, 2004
So bleak a vision as to be obsessive and ultimately shallow.
December 29, 2011
Cinematic style and Jennifer Jason Leigh make this worth watching.
