Dark Streets

A naïve playboy investigating the suspicious death of his wealthy father finds his charmed life as owner of the hottest nightclub in town suddenly spiraling into disaster in this shadowy film noir fever dream from director Rachel Samuels. Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko, and Elias Koteas ...more

Is the musical dead? Is film noir dead? Well, Dark Streets shows that neither genre has gone the way of the dinosaur just yet. Blending those two classic genres, it displays reverence for them while sharpening both with a modern edge. The film feels like a dream, from its smoky atmospheres to hazy camera vantage points. Character revelations and plot points slowly materialize in this technical fog. Even though it was shot on an indie budget, Dark Streets looks like a big-money production. ...more

"A bullet's kiss is a cold way to meet betrayal." Thus begins Dark Streets, and that line, spoken in a bluesy rasp by Prince (Toledo), the film's narrator, and the dark slow-motion imagery that accompanies it, sets the tone for Dark Streets, director Rachel Samuels' hyper-stylized musical-noir pastiche. DP Sharone Meir's images are blurred at the edges, as though they were shot through a veil of smoke and Vaseline. Samuels successfully sets a mood, surrounding her main character, Chaz Davenport ...more