As Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times of ‘David Wojnarowicz’ in ‘NY’ (1999): “[…] frantically pacing around the colossal family-fun sports-and-entertainment center called Chelsea Piers, which has replaced (the) old, illicit haunts, […] for better or worse, and probably some of each, the time of living on “the cold and sharpest blade of a knife” is over.”
There's not a person in the world who wouldn't recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew the man who originally gave shape, movement and personality to the world's most beloved icon.
In a neighborhood bar, a mysterious man tells a group of friends the story of an aspiring soccer player who, 50 years ago, tried out for an English club but who had the peculiar characteristic that he could only play soccer in flip-flops.
Two Canadian women return to the Netherlands to recount the terrifying ordeal they experienced as children at the hands of the Nazis, and to connect with the individuals and families who risked their lives to save them.
