Downtown '81
Film20011h 12m
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- Director
- Edo Bertoglio
- Language
- English
- Released
- 2001-07-13
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
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The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
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