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Genres:
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Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Aaron Katz
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Actors:
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Joe Swanberg,
Erin Fisher,
Michael Tully,
Sarah Hellman,
Tucker Stone,
Liz Bender,
Karrie Crouse,
Keegan DeWitt,
Daryl Nuhn,
C. Mason Wells,
Cris Lankenau
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Duration:
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78 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)138.5
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Plot Summary:
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A take off who's just astray his job meets a girl, newly arrived from Atlanta, on a subway stage in New York. Together, the new friends spend an momentous 24 hours in the city traveling from diners to burgh parks to abandoned apartments to a interest to an art gallery in the bravery of Brooklyn.
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Quiet City
Writer-director Aaron Katz's second feature finds quiet spaces of intimacy amidst the noise of New York City
Add the improvised no-budget naturalism of John Cassavetes to the slacker sensibilities of early Richard Linklater, update them to the noughties, and you get the micro-movement in American independent film known as 'mumblecore', as practised by Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha), Jay and Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair), Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes The Stairs) and Aaron Katz.
While, strictly speaking, the characters in Katz's second feature Quiet City do not mumble, they do inflect their every utterance with a panoply of ums and uhs and likes and you-knows that can at times overtake the substance of what they are saying.
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