Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Direction
Scorsese at his most playful and formally inventive.
Production
Soho as a neon-drenched labyrinth of doom.
Editing
Relentless rhythm that mirrors Paul's spiraling panic.
Director
Martin Scorsese
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scorsese made this after The Last Temptation of Christ fell through, calling it his 'comeback from personal desolation.' It won Best Director at Cannes.
The film captures 1980s Soho's art-punk underground before gentrification swallowed it whole — the Mohawk nightclub and paper-mache sculptures are documentary truth.
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