If you’re feeling unduly agitated, why not take a break from the Hellish circus of death that is the current news cycle and check out Amos Poe’s 1976 film, “Unmade Beds,” a punk-adjacent cinematic endeavor that fleetingly stars Debbie Harry. IMDB describes it thusly…
This is the story of Rico, a man who lives in New York in 1976 but who lives his own life in Paris during the time of the 'New Wave'. He is a photographer who thinks he's a gangster, a loner, and an outsider. He uses his camera like a gun, loading it with bullets of film. He's constantly on the look for a reality to fulfill his fantasy, and as long as he has that energy, he lives. Of course, he's also a romantic, and this is his downfall, because he believes all photographers to be liars. When Rico falls in love, the delicate balance of the world he has made for himself is disrupted.
It's not nearly as compelling as Poe’s “The Foreigner” (which I discussed here), but the shots of mid-70s downtown are pretty compelling.
Enjoy!
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