Heaven Knows What
A small, beautiful classic of street theater by rendering these public disputes within a vibrant Manhattan setting through ingenious photography.
Heaven Knows What
Directed by celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie (Lenny Cooke, Daddy Longlegs), HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict (Arielle Holmes) who finds mad love in the streets of New York. The film is based on Holmes' soon-to-be-published memoir Mad Love in New York City. Co starring Caleb Landry-Jones (X-Men First Class, Byzantium), HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT also features street legend Buddy Duress and gore rap phenom Necro.
Genre
Drama
Language
English
Director
Ben Safdie,
Joshua Safdie
Cast
Arielle Holmes,
Buddy Duress
FEATURED REVIEW
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke's cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman's new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up, and nodding out. But Josh ...
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