Welcome to New York

Welcome to New York

By Abel Ferrara

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2015-03-27
  • Advisory Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1h 48min
  • Director: Abel Ferrara
  • Production Company: Belladonna Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
5.2/10
5.2
From 125 Ratings

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A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world: the mighty Gérard Depardieu gives a fearless performance in this ripped-from-the-headlines saga of sin and sleaze from boundary-pushing director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45). Inspired by one of the most high-profile public implosions in recent memory, Welcome to New York follows a prominent international banker (Depardieu) as he spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America—culminating in a shocking incident involving a hotel maid and his subsequent arrest. Jacqueline Bisset co-stars in this provocative portrait of a man whose fall from grace sent shockwaves throughout the world.

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  • Welcome to the Land of the Clintons

    5
    By JohnDemetry
    Abel Ferrara's muckraking reveals intimate character motivations (power) within the capacity for performance and politics to move the electorate; although based on Strauss-Kahn, its fictionalized approach could make it as easily about the Clintons or the Obamas (the fictional Strauss-Kahn's rationale for his innocence is Clintonian and the change of the victim's race explores the Obama-era exploitation of the base). Depardieu's Shakespearean monologue about his character's fall from self-aggrandizing idealism to the nihilistic pursuit of pleasure ("the poor are profitable") is superb.
  • Welcome to New York

    2
    By Russ'sSis
    Brilliant performances by Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset are the core of this film. He portrays the sex addicted Deveraux, she the ambitious, disgusted wife who sees her chance of being the First Lady of France slipping away. This is an excellent film.

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