Uncut Gems, QA with the Safdie Brothers, Mo MA FILM

Filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie discuss their 2019 film Uncut Gems in a postscreening Q A in MoMA s Contenders series. In Uncut Gems, a thriller 10 years in the making, the Safdie brothers take their gritty treatment of New Yorks underbelly to dizzying new heights. Adam Sandlers revelatory performance as a bullish jeweler down on his lucka mensch who cant resist a big play and only barely lands on his feetpropels this breathless character study that zigzags from the Diamond District (where Sadfi