Street of No Return
Screening on Film
Directed by Samuel Fuller.
With Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke.
France/Portugal, 1989, 35mm, color, 93 min.
English with French subtitles.
With Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke.
France/Portugal, 1989, 35mm, color, 93 min.
English with French subtitles.
Street of No Return opens with a hammer slamming ruthlessly into a face, a visceral image expressive of the shocking confrontational cinema that Fuller continued to make right up to his final films. An uncompromising adaptation of David Goodis' bleak and beautiful pulp novel of the same name, Street of No Return follows a crooked path through a noir underworld inhabited by Keith Carradine as a down-on-his-luck former rock star looking for redemption in all the wrong places. From its race riot beginning to its desolate ending, Fuller's penultimate film is an edgy and quintessentially Eighties art film, stylistically garish and neon lit, with a soundtrack featuring Carradine's own rock songs.