Edo Bertoglio
Director
Downtown '81 (2001)
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Keywords: tmdb.art, tmdb.anarchic-comedy, mdblist.fresh, imdb.artist, imdb.graffiti, imdb.no-wave, imdb.street-life + 11 more, imdb.street-artist, imdb.post-punk, imdb.new-york-city, imdb.directorial-debut, imdb.1980s, imdb.money, soundmix.dolby, tmdb.new-york-city, tmdb.artist, mdblist.has-trailer, aspectratio.1-66-1
Watch Providers: Kanopy, Hoopla, Metrograph, Kino Film Collection
Production Companies: New York Beat Films
Country: United States
Production Country:
United States
Languages:
Japanese,
English,
Mandarin,
Spanish
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Watch Trailer
72 min
July 13, 2001
Released
NR