Cinema Cellar

Mala Noche Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1985
Director: Gus Van Sant
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Nyla McCarthy, Sam Downey, Bob Pitchlynn, Eric Pedersen, Marty Christiansen, Bad George Connor, Don Chambers, Walt Curtis
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Language: English
Release Date: 2007-09-10
Description

With its low budget and lush black-and-white imagery, Gus Van Sant's debut feature Mala Noche heralded an idiosyncratic, provocative new voice in American independent film. Set in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, the film evokes a world of transient workers, dead-end day-shifters, and bars and seedy apartments bathed in a profound nighttime, as it follows a romantic deadbeat with a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Mala Noche was an important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and is a fascinating capsule from a time and place that continues to haunt its director's work.