81 minute running time … 1959 Manhattan … the beat scene, man, can you dig it? I couldn’t. Story about a dumb white guy who falls in love with a mulatto girl … I guess it was pretty revolutionary back then, anti-miscegenation laws and all that ... Tony turns tail when he discovers she’s “black.” I wasn’t thrilled though.

From a Criterion essay: “It has no hero, no villain, no linear plotline, no gerrymandered suspense, no practiced comedy….”