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Shot at 30 New York locations on a tight schedule, the film
that premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday offers a
different take on the gangster film.
It blends fact with fiction and follows a couple who robbed New
York Mafia social clubs, where mobsters played cards and drank.
The film, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, also depicts a
world when crime bosses were neighborhood kings and young men
aspired to be a part of their world to gain the social status.
"I was intrigued about the idea of this person who just
desperately wants to be something he is not," said
writer/director Nick Sandow, about his second film behind the
camera.
"It's from the perspective of someone who is outside it (the
Mafia) and desperately wants to be inside."
Patricia Arquette, an Oscar winner for her role in "Boyhood,"
and Vincent Piazza, who plays the young mobster Lucky Luciano in
the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," are the modern-day version of
Bonnie and Clyde.
Piazza plays Thomas Greco, a man obsessed with the Mafia. He
religiously attends the 1992 murder trial of crime boss John
Gotti hoping to gain entry into the organization, even
attempting to fix the trial, but is turned away.
Arquette, as his older, savvy lover and wife Rose, knows the
world he hopes to join but faces her own problems with drugs and
finding her place in the world. Together they embark on a crazy,
dangerous, drug-fueled adventure robbing the Mafia.
"I felt these two characters were the perfect vehicle to take us
on that journey in search of identity, of being in love with the
ideas of each other, and being in love with the idea of who each
person would want to be," said Piazza.
Sandow, who plays Joe Caputo in the HBO series "Orange is the
New Black," said he identified with Greco and where he came
from.
"The film depicts the early 1990s. The Gotti trial was the last
straw in the coffin," he said. "It was the end of an era and he
was trying to hold on to this idea of something that really
wasn't there anymore."
(Editing by Mary Milliken; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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