RESTLESS CITY New Auteurs

Director Andrew Dosunmu gives us a fresh take on New York City hustling through the eyes of recent immigrants for whom there are no illusions about the American Dream. His main character, Diibril, is on aspiring musician from Senegal who ekes out a living selling CDs to West African immigrants on the streets of Harlem. When Djibril falls for on attractive young African woman with her own hustle, he’s drown into the brutal violence that is a byproduct of the city’s underground economies. Cinematographer Bradford Young infuses Dosunmu’s New York City with a visual melancholy that boldly and beautifully expresses Djibril’s broken dreams.