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Welcome To New York
life of former IMF leader Strauss-Kahn, Welcome to New York follows a prominent international banker Depardieu spirals out of control during a drug and sex-fueled trip to America. Culminating in his shocking affair with a hotel maid, his wife Simone still stays on her firm attitude until the day Depardieu is under arrested.
7 August 1980, Saint-Mars-d'Outillé, Sarthe, France
12 August 1952, Uccle, Belgium
3 September 1967, New York City, New York, USA
1959, Puerto Rico
January 01, 2016
Thankfully, the more interesting drama of the aftermath is intact, including Jacqueline Bisset's performance as Devereaux's wife, Simone, channeling a righteous anger not seen since Beatrice Straight in Network.
May 12, 2015
Neither shocking nor illuminating, Welcome to New York comes off merely as hero worship of a terrible man who revels in his abuses of power.
September 21, 2016
Queasily compelling.
May 24, 2015
Sordid melodrama, recreating a notorious scandal...
April 16, 2015
This frank, unruly look at sex, privilege and power unfolds so much like real life that it proves an intriguing and strangely immersive experience.
June 06, 2016
Welcome to New York is a bold, sometimes absurdly funny, and often-horrifying look into the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.
April 26, 2015
Few actors in the world are better suited to play a gluttonous pig than Gerard Depardieu, and I mean that in the best possible way one can make such an assertion.
April 09, 2015
In an Abel Ferrara movie, this sort of damaged, raging, unrepentant bull passes for an antihero.
April 06, 2015
The movie packs a singular, agonized vision that seems entirely the director's own.
April 23, 2015
The film, a sleek and oddly moving study in the cost of debauchery, has its gleeful excesses.
April 23, 2015
[The] deliberate structure demonstrates Ferrara's artfulness, as does the lush imagery.
