Film

Downtown '81

Name: Downtown '81
Director: Edo Bertoglio
Released: 2001
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Saul Williams, Anna Shroeder, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Giomelsky

2001 · 72 min · ★ 6.9 · Dir. Edo Bertoglio

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.