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Heaven Knows What

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Original title

Heaven Knows What

Year

2014

Running time

94 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie

Screenwriter

Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie

Cast

Music

Paul Grimstad, Ariel Pink

Cinematography

Sean Price Williams

Producer

Iconoclast

Genre

Drama | Independent Film (US). Poverty. Drugs

Synopsis

Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose and sets her passion ablaze. So, when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin.

The latest from acclaimed sibling directors Josh and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict who finds mad love in the streets of New York. The Safdie brothers’ fictional adaptation of the memoirs of Arielle Holmes, a homeless heroin addict at 19, who is also the protagonist of the film. Harley is the name of her alter ego, incapable of freeing herself from her addiction to the drug or from a destructive relationship. Her days go by like that, in grey streets and narrow New York apartments, between the frenzy of the search for a fix to ease all her troubles, and the episodes of a stormy relationship that makes them worse.

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Awards: 2015: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for John Cassavetes Award & Editing

2015: Gotham Awards: Nominated for Best Picture & Breakthrough Actress (Holmes)

2014: Sevilla Film Festival: Best Actress (Arielle Holmes)

2014: Tokyo Film Festival: Best Film

2014: Seville European Film Festival: Best Actress. 2 nominations

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