2003 Directed by Nathaniel Geary
Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and fuelled by drugs.
USA
USA
Relentlessly grim slice of life on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that manages not to descend into total voyeuristic melodrama. Cheap looking, but well acted with good use of actual DTES locations. Better than expected.
[Watched in theatres]
A shaggy little junkie drama à la The Panic in Needle Park or Heaven Knows What that plops you verité-style into Vancouver’s infamous Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.
I pass right through the epicentre of this area every day, but I travel via bus, rarely taking to the streets. This film puts you right in the fray of these streets, and even lets you peer behind its closed doors—albeit, these streets and doors as they existed in 2003. Director Nathaniel Geary did social work in this neighbourhood around the time of his film’s production, and at this recent screening mentioned that he has since returned to the same work. 20 years between his stints, Geary confirmed what I—even from…
