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Sunday (1997)

Sunday poster
Directed by
Jonathan Nossiter
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A homeless man and a woman meet by chance in Queens. They spend the day together and share stories about their lives.

melancholicslow-burnintimategrittyquietly tensecharacter-drivengray

What happens

Sunday is a 1997 American independent film directed by Jonathan Nossiter. The screenplay is an adaptation by Nossiter and James Lasdun of Lasdun's own short story "Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (published in his collection of stories, Three Evenings). The two would later collaborate again on Signs and Wonders. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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