short movie.THE SHOE by André Saraiva

directed by André Saraiva

starring Leo Fitzpatrick and Annabelle Dexter-Jones

André Saraiva pulled from his personal experiences as a modern day bon vivant for his directorial debut The Shoe, but the artist and club owner also channeled the cinematic ghosts of his leading man. “The central character is a little as if Leo [Fitzpatrick’s] character in Kids has moved to Paris nearly 15 years later,” Saraiva says. “It’s a clin d’oeil [wink] to it, with the skateboard, the kisses, girls and free love.” Fitzpatrick was a mere 14 years old when he was discovered by Larry Clark while skateboarding in Washington Square Park. The maverick filmmaker promptly cast him in his controversial 1995 movie Kids, and since then Fitzpatrick has appeared in movies including Clark’s follow-up feature Bully and Todd Solondz’s Storytelling. We talked to the actor about "dude" bars and the charms of New York versus Paris. 
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