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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
A compassionate, unvarnished portrait of addicts trying to survive within a makeshift romantic partnership; it shares the original’s melancholy, lived-in urban realism without glamorising dependency.
02
Why this pick
This bleak, immersive drama similarly locates addiction in the texture of everyday city life, with tender but painful attention to how love, loneliness, and desperation become inseparable.
03
Why this pick
Though not centered on drugs, its loose, intimate naturalism and focus on a vulnerable woman drifting into a damaging relationship closely echo the sad, nonjudgmental human scale of Needle Park.
04
Why this pick
Its abrasive subjective sound design and stripped-down realism create another deeply unsettling portrait of social marginalisation, while retaining the compassion for people others are quick to abandon.
05
Why this pick
A bruising character study of addiction and self-destruction, anchored by a vulnerable central performance; it has the same refusal to turn emotional damage into easy melodrama.
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01 / THE STORY
In New York City, Helen returns to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend, Marco, after enduring an unhygienic and inept abortion. Helen becomes ill and Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows unexpected gentleness and concern for Helen. Helen considers returning to her dysfunctional family, but moves in with Bobby, and when she finds him taking drugs, he explains that he is not an addict, but only uses a little.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Helen
Chico
Sammy
Mickey
Whitey
Marco
Samuels
Bobby
