Martin Scorsese dedicates a mini-series to Fran Lebowitz on Netflix
Fran Lebowitz in the mini-series “If it was a city” by Martin Scorsese.
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A Martin Scorsese miniseries on Netflix!
In “Pretend It's A City” (“Pretend It's A City”), the filmmaker gives the floor, in seven thirty-minute episodes, to his friend and accomplice, the New York writer and comedian Fran Lebowitz.
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Martin Scorsese is the man of pharaonic achievements: $ 160 million budget for
The Irishman
, with Al Pacino and Robert de Niro, a shoot on three continents for
Silence
and
The Wolf of Wall Street
, with Leonardo DiCaprio, his greatest success worldwide to date.
But he also likes to work on more modest productions, where he pays homage to his childhood loves: jazz or Italian cinema.
Today, it is to one of his closest friends, Fran Lebowitz, glory of letters and icon of New York of the 1970s, that he devotes this documentary series.
From Toni Morrison to Charlie Mingus via Leonardo DiCaprio
The series collects its witticisms, cocks to the ass and sharp lines.
It is also a stroll through New York, a rare pleasure where Lebowitz tells us about the city as she discovered it in the 1970s and 1980s. Anecdotes, each more crisp than the last, abound: a discussion with Toni Morrison on the pleasure of writing, a conversation with Charlie Mingus, a long argument with Spike Lee on basketball player Michael Jordan.
We also meet Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom she smoked in secret on the set of The
Wolf of Wall Street
.
Each episode is a summit of good humor, humor and good words.
Beside him is a hilarious Scorsese, who is obviously having a great time alongside this politically incorrect comedic genius, who reminds us of a world before the pandemic.
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