“Suffice to say that Rosario Dawson’s indie Descent,{nl}which premiered last night in the Tribeca Film Festival, is hard to{nl}take on many levels. It is not easy to watch the lovely, fierce Lower{nl}East Side native being date-raped by a Waspy frat god who calls her a{nl}”baboon” and a “nigger with attitude,” nor is it easy to contain one’s{nl}confusion when the arty-cum-clunky pic morphs into gay porn in its{nl}final twenty minutes. “It’s a rough ride, and people come out of it{nl}either loving or hating it,” said Dawson, who’s in town for the{nl}festival from Los Angeles, where she’s lived now nearly the past two{nl}years. (Dawson made the film with writer-director Talia Lugacy, a{nl}friend since the two took Strasberg classes together in their teens{nl}here in the city.) “I’m a little anxious to see how this affects my{nl}audience, but I come from that independent-film history of movies like Kids that start up a lot of conversations.”{nl}{nl} {nl} {nl} {nl} Dawson,{nl}in a classy chignon and chiffon-y minidress, was so mobbed by press{nl}before the screening at a 34th Street multiplex that we only got to{nl}talk to her as she strode on up to the cinema. What does the girl who{nl}was discovered over a decade ago sitting on her Lower East Side stoop{nl}think of the area now that she’s been gone two years? “It’s crazy!” she{nl}gushed. “I’m staying at the Bowery Hotel now, and I walk down the{nl}street and I’m in shadow where a lot used to be because there’s a{nl}high-rise now. When gentrification first started there, I was angry.{nl}Like, I hate yuppies. Then I thought, Wait

May 14th, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: Joliz

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