Restless City

Name: Restless City
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: April 27, 2012
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 59

2012

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African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement | Release Date: April 27, 2012 | R

Summary: Restless City tells the story of an Africa immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle, and falling in love is his greatest risk. (African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement)

Director: Andrew Dosunmu

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 80 min

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Duane Byrge

Apr 21, 2012

In this intense twist on the American Dream, director Andrew Dosunmu vividly captures the pulsating dynamic of New York city's pan-African community, a robust aggregation that subsists amid an often hostile foreign environment. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Aug 16, 2012

With Dosunmu, African culture thrives in a demographically shifting but historically African-American part of town. If the idea is that Nollywood could work in Manhattan, this is the director who can show us how. Read full review

John Anderson

Apr 21, 2012

Picture's visual elegance makes a limited arthouse life possible, although Nigerian-born fashion photog-turned-helmer Andrew Dosunmu is far more interested in aesthetics than narrative in erecting his visually poetic "City." Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Apr 24, 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. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 1, 2012

The script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Apr 27, 2012

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. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Apr 26, 2012

In its portrait of a Restless City the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers. Read full review

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