When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.
Acting
Ally Sheedy's raw, career-redefining vulnerability.
Direction
Cholodenko's hazy, intimate lens on desire and decay.
Cinematography
Seedy apartments bathed in golden, dying light.
Director
Lisa Cholodenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Lisa Cholodenko's actual Alphabet City apartment, giving the film its suffocating authenticity.
Ally Sheedy based Lucy's photography on Nan Goldin's work; Goldin later praised the performance.
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