Abel
Ferrara
biography
Born in New York in 1952, he started his career as an independent film-maker with a group of friends. After the first commercial films and some American tv series, he focused on the violence in today's metropolitan areas, directing King of New York (1991) and The Bad Lieutenant (1992). His best works, however, are dark and lucid reflections on death such as The Addiction (1995) and The Funeral (1996), whose screenplays were both written by Nicholas St. John. Finally he turns to minimalism in his following films, which mark a new stage of his production: celebrity and show business in Blackout (1997), industrial espionage in New Rose Hotel (1998), the family in R-Xmas (2001).
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Abel Ferrara
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