Dark Days (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains frequent coarse language and drug use
- Run time: 1 hour 22 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 9th March 2001
- Starring: Marc Singer
- Directed by: Marc Singer
- Distributor: Optimum Releasing
Plot Synopsis
Marc Singer's entertaining and incredibly moving film depicts an almost unimaginable community living in rail tunnels under New York City - a place swarming with rats, where trains roar past make-shift huts. DJ Shadow provides the film's haunting soundtrack.
In Dark Days Marc Singer has made an astonishing film - he spent two years living with the people who have made a home for themselves underground in New York City.
The film is shot in black and white, but it manages somehow to be sumptuous. And it gives a kind of dignity to its subjects as it unpacks their reasons for their marginal, underground life.
Dark Days is a real cinematic experience - you come away from it feeling differently about life, as well as knowing something more about living in the dark.