Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Werner Herzog’s remake of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1993) has the same protagonists: a cocaine-crazed and flipped-out cop – memorably played in the original by Harvey Keitel, in the remake by Nicolas Cage. Herzog, who claims he never saw the original, moved the setting from the streets of New York to New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It is the turf of detective Terence McDonaugh (Cage), who puts his teeth into the murder of five Senegalese illegal immigrants. It looks like a typical case of settling up in the drugs world. His quest for the killer takes him to the seamiest sides of ‘The Big Easy’. McDonaugh, addicted to pain killers, get hopelessly lost during his criminal odyssey. Gambling debts, problems with his girlfriend annex prostitute Frankie (Eva Mendes) and his being suspended don’t make his life any easier.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 121'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
