Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Director	Sara Driver
Year	2017
Country	USA
Runtime	1h 18m
Language	English
Format	DCP
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Synopsis

Sara Driver returns to the director’s chair for this demythologizing portrait of a teenage Jean-Michel Basquiat adrift in the graffiti-ridden streets and night clubs of New York City – pre AIDS, crack, Giuliani. Using never before seen footage, artworks, and interviews with Fab 5 Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, and Nan Goldin – Driver crafts a spirited portrait of a luminary artist – eternally cool. Enigmatic, magnetic, turbulent – BOOM FOR REAL.

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