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Paradise Records is of a lost artifact type, when punky, punchy storytelling was the rage. It's tone more flaccid in spaces, its pace bogged, trips on jokes better off left on the cutting room floor, yet the heart is there and the ride lively.

Paula Gonzalez-Nasser brings her background as a professional location scout for a metatextual meditation on the arrangements we make of the places that we live in. Her camera stoic, purposeful, and never once without a point to what it's capturing.

Inheritances Writ in Mud and Chlorine - Birthright is a Thrilling Battle of the Generations.

Across five boroughs, the film passes through the lives of these everyday New Yorkers, their hurdles examined and felt, deeply, out through the screen.

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