Panic in Needle Park · Jerry Schatzberg
USA · 1971 · 110 mins
Screening as part of the ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’ series, programmed by João Caselha, a student on the Sound and Image degree course
This story portrays a troubled couple, Helen and Bobby, whose daily lives consist of scraping together money for heroin, through robbery and prostitution.
The affection they feel for one another grows as their drug dependency increases, until the day their relationship begins to be mutually destructive.
