Downtown '81(2001)

movie - first aired/released 2001-07-13 - 72 min - audience 6.7

Drama, Comedy, Music

Directed by Edo Bertoglio

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.