Heaven Knows What

Heaven Knows What portrays the everyday life of a New York heroin user with uncompromising yet refreshing honesty. Led by the compelling Arielle Holmes, herself a former homeless addict on whose memoir the script was based, the film uses cinema vérité and a discomforting synth soundtrack to observe the protagonist's unglamorous ritual of panhandling, stealing and scoring. But her tumultuous relationship with volatile Ilya may prove even more harrowing...