Made as part of an international art project curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Abel Ferrara'sSportin’ Life is a 65-minute trip through the mind of the New York filmmaker, where we find a mixture of the curious and the exasperating.
Screened out of competition at Venice, it was filmed and edited between February and September of this fateful year 2020, when the coronavirus brought the world to a halt.
That description may not seem very appetizing, and the documentary has its stretches of wheel-spinning. A self-portrait akin to his 2017 Alive in France, it's given depth and gravitas in its poignantly familiar images of the pandemic in New York, which reached its peak as the film was being shot.
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