Downtown '81

Original title: Downtown '81

72 minutes • 2001 • 6.7 Score

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.

Edo Bertoglio

Director