Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

France

2003

80 Min

Color

1.66:1

English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Janine Bazin, Xavier Carniaux, André S. Labarthe

CAST Abel Ferrara, Stuart Alson, Victor Argo, Celia Beuzleron, Lillo Brancato, Echo Danon, Frank DeCurtis, Nicole Holland, Mike Hurt, Nina Kaze, Robert Oppel, Pamela Tiffin

For the French cinephile series Cinéma de notre temps, Rafi Pitts made an intimate portrait of the American film maker Abel Ferrara. The result is an eccentric road-movie, with the restless Ferrara as a charming, seedy guide, leading us through nocturnal New York. Pitts’ introverted approach offers all the room Ferrara needs and he has no trouble filling this space with his larger-than-life personality. We see him quarrel with taxi drivers, start talking frankly to strange women in the street and tell his version of the truth, to anyone who wants to hear. But his isolation becomes apparent, in an America, to which Ferrara does not want to conform. –IMDb

Director

Rafi Pitts

Rafi Pitts (born 1967 in Mashad, Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.

Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a ‘very bad’ child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from Harrow College – Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90’s Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.

Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.

In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and describes himself as having been the first… read more