Director: Alfredo De Villa
Prod: Steven J. Brown, Joshua Blum, Ian Jessel
Scr: Alfredo De Villa,Nat Moss
Cin: John Foster
Ed: John Coniglio
Mus: Michael A. Levine
Series: US Cinema
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Language:
Run Time: 89
Date/Time: 7/21/2007 | 7:15pm
Venue: CAB
An eye doctor is forced to take a closer look at her life while grieving the death of her baby, an aging artist confronts the loss of his eyesight, and a young photographer battles his innermost demons in three intersecting stories set along the 1/9 subway line in New York City. A lush meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city, Alfredo de Villa's Adrift in Manhattan is the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. With raw, exacting performances by a topnotch cast, including Heather Graham, Dominic Chinese, Elizabeth Pena, Billy Baldwin and Victor Rasuk (of Raising Victor Vargas fame), the story wields fertile metaphors and a sophisticated sense of psychology to penetrate the subtle process of human transformation and the possibilities for meaningful interchange lying dormant in contemporary urban life.
Festival Appearances:
2007 Sundance, 2007 Guadalajara, Winner, Best Narrative Feature, 2007 Indianapolis, Winner, Best Ensemble Cast, 2007 Palm Beach
Competition Awards:
Dramatic Feature