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Foreign Parts
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Foreign Parts
(Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki, 2010, USA/France, 35mm, 81 min) In few corners of the United States is the gulf between rich and poor more dramatic than in Willets Point, a small neighborhood in Queens, New York. Dominating the landscape is the colossal Citi Field, home of the Metsone of the country's wealthiest and most famous baseball teams. But only yards away, as Robert Koehler described in CinemaScope, is a very different world: "When the rains come, the street, lined with junkyards, auto-repair shops, auto-body shops, and auto-parts shops turns into a flood zone, with garbage floating in pools of water that fail to subside for weeks afterward. Like most of the people who work on the street, it's tired, cracked, worn, pockmarked, and seemingly beyond repair."

An award-winner at the Locarno Film Festival, Foreign Parts chronicles the citizens of this fascinating microcosm. It takes us right into the heart of a hazardous, hardscrabble community perilously threatened by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious "gentrification" plans. It's a necessary, topical and touching film.

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Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States

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Owner: Ilana Holmes
On BPT Since: Jan 01, 2000
 
Ilana Holmes
www.nwfilmforum.org


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