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Sunday (1997)

director of photography: John Foster
cast: David SuchetLisa HarrowJared HarrisArnold BarkusLarry PineBahman SoltaniWillis Burks IIJoseph Sirola
director: Jonathan Nossiter
running time: 91 min.
writer: James Lasdun
synopsis
This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-agedmoderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a famous film director or both. Madeleine hails him on the street as the latterlaunching a bizarre chain of events that includes a conversation in a dinera very unromantic sexual encounterthe arrival of Madeleine's odd husband and unsuspecting daughterand a child's birthday party. The film also compassionately tracks the daily rounds of Oliver/Matthew's fellow denizens of the homeless sheltersome of whom will be recognizable to New York audiences.