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Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose and sets her passion ablaze. So, when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin.
7 June 1976, Brooklyn, New York, USA
17 September 1993, Hollywood, California, USA
7 December 1989, Garland, Texas, USA
January 26, 2017
A film where the camera is always in motion without glamour and humor but, also, without horror or excessive miserabilism and that has the music of Debussy. [Full review in Spanish]June 18, 2015
Holmes has a face that reveals everything and nothing. Besides being strikingly photogenic, she's a natural.June 11, 2015
All this desperation and squalor reeks of authenticity.June 19, 2015
Heaven Knows What feels like an authentic, sometimes painfully accurate portrait of life in New York City as experienced by the homeless, ever-hustling teenagers.June 11, 2015
A striking portrait of addiction that doesn't say anything new - drugs are bad, kids - but it leaves a lasting and chilling impression.June 20, 2016
Kudos to the Safdies for not sugar-coating or otherwise romanticizing the experience of being an addict, but it is a bummer to watch.May 01, 2016
In its own downbeat way, it's a film with spirit and heart.December 17, 2016
For an hour and a half, we watch a vacant young woman batter herself with two ruinous addictions: heroin, and her love for a despicable fellow vagrant Remarkably, though, it all becomes kind of compelling -- a testament to the film's aggressive vitality.January 26, 2017
A story of addiction and survival with a very clean documentary style, with lots of seemingly out of rhythm zooms. [Full review in Spanish]June 18, 2015
Fans of the cinematic street poet Larry Clark (Kids, Bully) might go for this, though the unexpected moments of dignity and compassion that deepen his characters are in short supply here.June 11, 2015
It's just a portrait of emptiness, but it feels a lot like the real thing.