
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
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| The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeIn this intense twist on the American Dream, director Andrew Dosunmu vividly captures the pulsating dynamic of New York city's pan-African community, a robust aggregation that subsists amid an often hostile foreign environment. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonBeautiful but inert, Restless City is like a grimy lost verse of Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' -- a film concerned with locating the quiet nobility in hand-to-mouth existence, and celebrating struggle for self-betterment via dollar bills, y'all. |
| Washington PostAnn Hornaday"Restless City" possesses a poetic, contemplative sensibility as attuned to the vagrant beauty of polyglot urban life as to its chaotic unpredictability. |
| Boston PhoenixMiles BoweRestless City looks gorgeous, but has nothing to say. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisWith Dosunmu, African culture thrives in a demographically shifting but historically African-American part of town. If the idea is that Nollywood could work in Manhattan, this is the director who can show us how. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonPicture's visual elegance makes a limited arthouse life possible, although Nigerian-born fashion photog-turned-helmer Andrew Dosunmu is far more interested in aesthetics than narrative in erecting his visually poetic "City." |
| Village VoiceErnest HardyTold in an elliptical style with a pacing and jagged rhythms that take some getting used to, the thrust and power of the film lies in its poetic imagery. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned. |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsForget pimps, it's apparently just as hard out there for a street peddler. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonViolent episodes explode and recede, but without context and emotional connection, they're sometimes just pictures. |