16. Heaven Knows What
New York filmmakers, Josh and Benny were inspired to make it after spotting their future star. Arielle Holmes, learns of her story of heroin addiction, criminality, homelessness and destructive love. What is remarkable is that it could otherwise be a familiar addiction narrative. It also stars Caleb Landry Jones as Holmes’ self-destructive, volatile junkie paramour Ilya, the film is a remarkable blend of woozily impressionistic and grittily real, and does not talk down to its marginalized protagonists any more than it glamorizes the delusions of the life they lead. Most of the time, the City’s homeless are cinematically invisible, and on the rare occasions when they are featured they become figures of mockery or pity. But “Heaven Knows What” locates itself within that point of view to deliver a poignant, tempestuous and truthful walk on the wild side.