{"id":146,"date":"2012-12-22T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-02-26T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:19:26","slug":"city-island-2010-a-film-by-raymond-de-felitta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"CITY ISLAND (2009): A FILM BY RAYMOND DE FELITTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/city-island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147 alignleft\" title=\"city-island\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/city-island-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/city-island-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/city-island-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/city-island.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some families are time bombs on the verge of detonation. Take the Rizzos of City Island. Father and patriarch Vince (Andy Garcia) is a tough-talking Corrections Officer who spends his free time covertly pursuing acting classes.<\/p>\n<p>His dissatisfied and jaded wife (Julianna Margulies) is a concerned mother with a niggling nicotine habit. They have two children: \u00a0son Vince Jr. (Ezra Miller) is an impudent, smart-ass, adolescent with a fetish for feeding corpulent women fine cuisine; daughter Vivian (Dominik Garc\u00eda-Lorido), on the other hand, is a street-smart college student who has turned to stripping to pay her dues.<\/p>\n<p>If this isn\u2019t enough to tip this dysfunctional family over the edge, a recently released ex-con, Tony (Steven Strait), is invited into their lives \u2013 and their home &#8211; without having any clear idea why. Secrets. Deceptions. Suppressed aspirations. Dormant desires. Every family has them. And in writer\/director Raymond De Felitta\u2019s <em>City Island<\/em>, their debilitating, destructive and perversely hilarious repercussions are brought to bear on this working class Italian American family living in a rustic, small-knit fishing community in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>In this feisty and ferocious Independent black comedy, the past always chases, creeps up and crashes down on people when they least expect it, unleashing, like Pandora&#8217;s cursed Box, devastating havoc as well as threads of new hope.<\/p>\n<p>Navigating a bittersweet terrain charted by Mike Leigh&#8217;s sensational <em>Secrets and Lies<\/em> (1996), <em>City Island<\/em> shows how the hardest thing in the world, sometimes, is sharing our deepest, most intimate truths with those closest to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dr. Varga Hosseini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some families are time bombs on the verge of detonation. Take the Rizzos of City Island. Father and patriarch Vince (Andy Garcia) is a tough-talking Corrections Officer who spends his free time covertly pursuing acting classes. His dissatisfied and jaded wife (Julianna Margulies) is a concerned mother with a niggling nicotine habit. They have two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}