New York New York (1977)

Nella notte folle del 2 settembre 1945 (la resa del Giappone), a Times Square un sassofonista e una cantante si incontrano. Ne segue, sull'arco di otto anni, una vicenda che tocca tutti i passaggi obbligati: amore tempestoso, tensioni, separazioni. La mano di Scorsese si sente: nella vitalità nevrotica che imprime ai personaggi, nell'afflato con cui ricrea l'aria del tempo. La colonna musicale farà liquefare di nostalgia i fans di ogni età.



English
The story opens on V-J Day in 1945. A massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. While there Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), a selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player, meets Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli), a small-time singer. Francine is lonely but still, she wants nothing to do with Jimmy, who keeps pestering her for her phone number.



The next morning, they end up sharing a cab, and, against her will, Francine accompanies Jimmy to an audition. There he gets into an argument with the club owner. Francine, to get the audition back on track, begins to sing the old standard, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"; Jimmy joins in on his sax. The club owner is impressed and, to Francine's astonishment, they are both offered a job — a boy-girl act. From that moment on, Jimmy and Francine's relationship deepens into love. But there are problems—mainly, Jimmy's tendency to fight with everyone, and his increasingly violent arguments with Francine, who becomes pregnant with his child. An especially bad shouting match between them results in Francine going into labor. Jimmy rushes her to the hospital, but he is not ready to be a father, or a good husband, and he abandons his wife.