New York Cuts (2015)

Name: New York Cuts
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-06-26T20:02:15+02:00

Documentary | 78 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Luke Lorentzen

Releasedate: 20 November 2015

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

New York Cuts plot

Using a static camera, conversations between hairdressers and their clients are followed in six hair salons in New York. At the chic hairstylist in Manhattan, the predominantly wealthy visitors get a hand massage in addition to their regular haircut; also a drink while their shoes are being shined is included. We talk about children and money matters. In a hair salon in Brooklyn, the silence in which regular customers drowsy undergo their treatment, while at the hairdresser in Harlem conversations between a group of West African women degenerate into a cacophony. Together, these observations reveal the multicultural society. There are striking contrasts between rich and poor and black and white. The everyday conversations reveal how the customers and the hairdressers approach life.