Quiet City

In this film, Jamie’s come to New York to visit her friend Samantha, but Samantha is nowhere to be found, and now Jamie is alone in the city., In Aaron Katz’s idiosyncratic and unpredictable drama Quiet City, Georgian Jamie travels from her Atlanta home to Brooklyn, to visit her friend Samantha. When Jamie arrives, however, Samantha seems to have disappeared from her residence – her phone is disconnected and she cannot be located. By sheer happenstance, Jamie runs into a stranger, Charlie, when she stops him to ask for directions. The two strike up an instant rapport and spend the rest of the day and night together – eating coleslaw, attending art exhibitions and experiencing Manhattan nightlife. The picture thus becomes an exploration of how relationships can spring from chance meetings between strangers, amid the most unfamiliar of circumstances and environments., Aaron Katz’s second film after Dance Party USA is a quieter film about a simple, touching relationship. Jamie, a stranger in New York, has been stood up by the friend who promised her accommodation. She bumps into Charlie who offers to put her up and slowly, the pair begin to fall in love. She bumps into Charlie who offers to put her up and slowly, the pair begin to fall in love., A woman comes to Brooklyn to see a friend, but she forms an unlikely connection with a stranger when the friend is nowhere to be found. Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau.