THE DAY THE PONIES COME BACK
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France - United States
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 104 min.
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Daniel Moulin never knew his father. All he knows about the American jazzman who came to France, gave his mother a child and walked away, is a 25-year-old contact address in the South Bronx. So, when Paul DeCruccio calls from New York begging Daniel to rush to the Big Apple to fix a batch of French horns, the temptation to lay childhood ghosts to rest becomes irresistible. Down in the Bronx, after witnessing a shootout between crack dealers, Daniel finds an unlikely ally, 10--year-old street-smart William. As a rare white face in the ghetto, Daniel attracts hostility from all sides. He provides impromptu street entertainment by managing to get beat up by white cops, but still irritates Clyde, who tells him: Only thing you got, that we got, is your momma got left. At the same time, across town, Daniel works hard to repair Paul's faulty French horns. Gradually he makes friends with Paul's daughter Tilly, whose marriage to her high school sweetheart Joey is turning violently sour. But in these strife-torn times, tragedy is only ever seconds away. As Daniel closes in on slumlord Stoller, the man he suspects of knowing clues to his father's identity, he has to deal with triumph and sadness in equal measure.
Everyone is looking for his father. And if you have a father, you're always looking to impress him. Daniel thinks that if he finds his father, he will find out who he is. He's looking for his identity. -- Jerry Schatzberg
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Script: Jerry Schatzberg, Robert Cea.
Phot.: Bruno de Keyser.
Ed.: Sabine Hoffman.
Mus.: John Hill.
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Burt Young, Monica Trombetta, Jay Rivera, Nick Sandow, Tony Lo Bianco.
Prod.: Alain Rocca, Lazennec, 5, rue Darcet, 75017 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 53 04 41 00, fax: (33-01) 53 04 41 01.
Sales: Studio Canal, 17, rue Dumont d'Urville, 75116 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 44 43 98 00, fax: (33-01) 47 20 29 67.
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Jerry Schatzberg
Born in New York in 1927, Jerry Schatzberg began his career as a photographer, working particularly in fashion. A specialist in portraits, he photographed a wide variety of showbusiness celebrities, including Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Cardinale, Milos Forman, Roman Polanski and Bob Dylan. After a stint making TV commercials, he launched his filmmaking career in 1970 with the critically-acclaimed PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD. His filmography includes: SCARECROW (1973), DANDY, THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL (1976), SWEET REVENGE (1976), THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979), HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (1981), MISUNDERSTOOD (1984), NO SMALL AFFAIR (1984), STREET SMART (1987), CLINTON AND NADINE (1988) and REUNION (1989). |
