Lucy Phillips's STEAL AMERICA, more a chronological series of vignettes than a plot-driven narrative, gives us the intertwined stories of three twentysomething Europeans living in San Francisco.
Christophe (Charlie Homo), an indolent and diffident young Frenchman, who claims to want to see the American West of cowboy movies, procures a job as a valet parker because he likes the uniform--a white lab coat--and likes being on the street. Stella (Clara Bellino), a Swiss woman he met on the
Greyhound bus en route to San Francisco, works in a postcard store where everything costs $2.99. Maria Maddelena (Diviana Ingravallo), an Italian expatriate, works in the kitchen ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins