Urbania (2000)
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70% of critics liked it
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71% of users liked it
(1,596 ratings)
Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in the flat above him, with a bartender and a… More Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in the flat above him, with a bartender and a one-night-stand he follows home, and with a tattooed stranger whom he seeks out and befriends. Along the way, Charlie inhabits a city full of moments of violence and of stories and legends: a kidney thief, a microwaved poodle, a rat in a hot dog bun, a baby left on a car top, a tourist's toothbrush, needles in public-phone change slots. Charlie lives and tells his own stories. What caused his melancholy?
- Directed By
- Jon Shear
- Written By
- Daniel Reitz, Jon Shear
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 15, 2000 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, Variety
One of the boldest entries in 2000 Sundance Fest, Shear's impressive debut is a darkly intriguing drama that probes the nature of love and lasting effects of loss, beautifully played by Dan Futterman (who later became known as the scripter of Capote)
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Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
A provocative and cathartic story about the impossibility of retribution and the challenge of redemption.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Urbania emerges from this confusion of signifier and sign as a frequently cunning amalgam of After Hours, Memento, and Angels in America
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