THE HOTTEST AUGUST [DVD] Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent

The poetry of the local vernacular is captured in the textured dialogue written by fellow Portuguese filmmaker Antonio Reis

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a guilt-stricken landowner

perspective and time – elements that would become hallmarks of his later work – the film follows a young woman

THE HOTTEST AUGUST [DVD] Saint LaurentA complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, THE HOTTEST AUGUST gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The films point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. Its a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on