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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Abel Ferrara
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Actors:
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Paul Hipp,
Richard Panebianco,
Judith Malina,
Sari Chang,
James Russo,
David Caruso,
Russell Wong,
Joey Chin,
James Hong,
Robert Miano
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)159.5
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Plot Summary:
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A modern lifetime Romeo & Juliet confabulation is told in Unique York when an Italian little shaver and a Chinese girl adorn come of lovers, causing a tragic dispute between ethnic gangs.
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China Girl
Ferrara does Romeo and Juliet, alone the setting is present-day Imaginative York and the star-crossed lovers an Italian guy and a Chinese girl. Being a Ferrara cinema, there's not a great deal of Shakespearean asset here, somewhat a an infinity of thunder and lifelike intensity as the two ethnic factions register their disapproval of the coherence. Nonetheless, the central love story shines to the core the brutality like a beacon, with Panebianco and Chang making an attractive couple. The Bard, meanwhile, is paid tax to during NYPD Blue's Caruso, who appears as bad guy Mercury (aka Mercutio).
China Girl
Not the Henry Hathaway-directed wartime flagwaver, but Abel Ferrara's stylised reworking of Romeo and Juliet. Despite that smooth when he's misfiring, Ferrara can under no circumstances be accused of being dull, and he makes superb reject here of both Little Italy and Chinatown as Richard Penebianco and Sari Chang find love across the roughneck codes. Only marginally less energetic than Baz Luhrmann's altered consciousness-voltage interpretation, the film echoes the key theme of The Godfather: that, in ignoring offspring tradition, the younger procreation risks losing everything that's taken years to acquire. Unfortunately, the cast fastener answerable to Ferrara's overambitious demands, with a pre-NYPD Blue David Caruso in particular entirely of his obscurity.
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