Anti-romanticization of being poor, artistic, aimless, lost in New York.
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Wren (Susan Berman) will nur eins: berühmt werden. Angezogen von der New Yorker Punkszene will sie dem Mief von New Jersey entkommen, doch ihr entgeht, daß der Zug schon weitergefahren ist, die Punkwelle ist praktisch schon vorbei, als sie bemüht ist, ihr Gesicht in der Stadt bekannt zu machen. Eine wirkliche Bekanntschaft macht sie jedoch nur in dem zuvor durchs Land reisenden Paul (Brad Rinn), der sie in die entscheidenden Läden bringt, aber ansonsten beständig von Wren ausgenutzt wird, während sie all ihre Aufmerksamkeit Eric (Richard Hell) schenkt, der mal seine 15 Minuten Ruhm hatte und jetzt seine schwachen Hoffnungen auf ein neues Bandprojekt an der Westküste setzt. Daß sie nur ausgenutzt wird, übersieht sie ebenso, wie sie gleichzeitig Paul ausnutzt und das alles kann nicht ewig gut gehen...
Heute keine Spielzeiten für Smithereens in Los Angeles.
Anti-romanticization of being poor, artistic, aimless, lost in New York.
"You know, I had this dream last night: the whole world had been blown up five years ago, right to smithereens, and everyone was just floating around on parts of it, and they hadn't even realized what had happened yet... Tell me the truth, am I like really awful or something?"this is the movie i've been looking for!!!! Susan Seidelman's Smithereens feels cut from a similar cloth as Barbara Loden's Wanda, but smeared in that unmistakable scuzz of New York City. while Loden's Wanda is soft-spoken and diaphanous, Seidelman's Wren is spunky, venomous, and brusque –– getting in physical fights, carelessly lying as she plods through the city in her crimson high-tops, and mistreating the one guy who's nice to her. "from now on, this van is always gonna remind you of me," she spits at him. Smithereens is about pathetic glamor; about ego so blinding that you miss the good that's right in front of you; about being so relentlessly pro-Hollywood that you make a case for anti-Hollywood; about how bleeding on the street in the dead of night both is and isn't as romantic as you think. i can't recommend it enough, especially for my fellow girls who rock!!
Punk Frances Ha.
The film follows Wren, a narcissistic young runaway navigating the gritty New York City punk scene while attempting to gain fame through manipulative relationships.
The film was directed by Susan Seidelman in 1982, marking her feature debut and capturing the authentic atmosphere of the downtown New York music scene.