Empire
While blockbusters seem hell-bent on reducing New York to rubble, indie filmmakers have been busy exploring a different kind of strife: gentrification. Like Nicole Holofcener’s insightful Please Give, Ira Sachs’ latest is set on a gentler but no less ruthless battlefield. All the usual weapons are in evidence – passive-aggression, guilt trips, whispered threats of legal action – as Greg Kinnear’s struggling actor and his breadwinning wife try to relieve their own finances by tripling the rent on the Brooklyn property they’ve just inherited. Standing to suffer from this is the fretful Chilean shopkeeper (Narcos’ Paulina Garcia), whose subsidised rent has kept her dressmaking store viable.
With the new The Crow remake coming soon, we take a look back at the 30-year-old cult classic original–and where the stars are now.
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