King of New-York
Abel Ferrara
Frank White, one of the leading drug barons in New York, has just been released from prison and wants to take over drug dealing in the city. He also dreams of building a hospital for the poor and needy, but the police will do everything they can to destroy his empire...
With : Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Giancarlo Esposito
Screenplay : Nicholas St John
Image : Bojan Bazelli
Editing : Anthony Redman
Decors : Alex Tavoularis
Music : Joe Delia
Screenplay : Nicholas St John
Image : Bojan Bazelli
Editing : Anthony Redman
Decors : Alex Tavoularis
Music : Joe Delia
Production : Rank Organisation, Rete Italia, Scena International
Distribution: Carlotta Films
Distribution: Carlotta Films
With his impressive silence Christopher Walken finds an unforgettable role in this film: a gangster called Franck White... Swinging between melancholy and destructive madness, Abel Ferrara's King of New York is a very Melvillian film. Just like Gu in Le Deuxième soufflé (Second Breath), when Franck White is released from prison he moves inexorably towards his downfall: he takes on, steals from and kills his rivals, and tries to reconstruct himself before finally spiralling towards a death experienced as the sacrifice of one man against the rest of the world. In Abel Ferrara's modern New York, justice serves crime and the police couldn't give a damn about taking the law into their own hands in trying to catch the criminals, not hesitating in slaughtering them in a carefully orchestrated choreography.