Mulberry St.

Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he has been living on the block, and the feast of San Gennaro is the subject of his new film. While he has used this location for a few of his features, this time it's the star of the film.

Calling this a documentary is a bit of a stretch, though I do not have a better word for it. Basically, we follow Abel Ferrara around the neighborhood of Mulberry Street, near the intersection with Broome, in New York's Little Italy. The filming is not very professional, the editing is not crisp or sharp. This is just a day of walking around, meeting friends and celebrities (including Danny Aiello and Matthew Modine).

I guess this is really for die-hard Ferara fans, because it does very little in the way of educating the viewer about the neighborhood. I suppose we can see how it is shifting from Italian to Chinese, but that is not really something this focused on.