Quiet City September 7, 2007

DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE
(Aaron Katz, USA, 2007, BETA-SP, 81 min)
It's not often a film comes along that finds a new way to depict New York City, but QUIET CITY manages to do just that quite beautifully. The New York depicted by director Aaron Katz (DANCE PARTY, USA) is indeed a quiet place, full of listless hours, intiguing strangers, and endless promise. Twenty-one-year-old Jamie (Erin Fisher) has traveled from Atlanta to Brooklyn to hang out with a friend, but Jamie doesn't know her way around town, and her friend's not answering her phone. A chance encounter in a subway station attaches Jamie to Charlie (Cris Lankenau), a shy, soft-spoken New Yorker of the indie-rock set. The two inch closer together as they kill time in diners, art galleries, and hipster parties-- slowly but surely distancing themselves from the lives they led before they met. A hit at this year's South by Southwest festival, Kats's moving film confidently captures the small, quiet moments of our life that in retrospect may scream out with major significance. QUIET CITY also expresses a deep belief that today's urban landscape is a place of mystery, and confirms Katz's status as a young director to watch. A point of interest: Joe Swanberg, the director of the SXSW gem HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, plays Adam in the comical coleslaw scene.
"It's sparse and simple but also colorful and interesting." -FILM THREAT

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