New York Nights (1984)
Directed by Simon Nuchtern
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Erotic Drama |
Release Date - Mar 1, 1984 (USA - Unknown), Mar 1, 1984 (USA) |
Run Time - 102 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
New York Nights is a boring, poorly acted adaptation of the much more successful La Ronde by Max Ophül -- ironically barred for four years by the New York State censorship board when it was first released in 1950. The story sequence is the key to the film; nine episodes each have a character from the preceding episode in a new romantic liaison, until the last character ends up with the one at the beginning. These nine scenarios are somewhere below the suds of soap-opera and above the explicit sex of porn movies. Many different directors in different countries have tried their own versions of La Ronde (based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler with much more success than this version by Simon Nuchtern.
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love, passion, prostitute/prostitution, seduction, sex, urban