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Auckland made documentary by up-and-coming filmmaker Sandor Lau (the self proclaimed "only Chinese/Hungarian-American" in NZ). It follows Starfish - a...
Auckland made documentary by up-and-coming filmmaker Sandor Lau (the self proclaimed "only Chinese/Hungarian-American" in NZ). It follows Starfish - a south Aucklander and professional intersection-car-window-washer. He's a born hustler with an extreme personality, infectious humour, and a vicious temper.
'Squeegee Bandit' follows him for nine months, three cars, two women, thirty residences, three weeks of homelessness, a hundred run-ins with the cops, one court date, a kilo of electric puha, a closet full of skeletons, finding God and the Zen of window washing.
'Squeegee Bandit' follows him for nine months, three cars, two women, thirty residences, three weeks of homelessness, a hundred run-ins with the cops, one court date, a kilo of electric puha, a closet full of skeletons, finding God and the Zen of window washing.
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"Its profanity count is up there with Goodfellas and most of the swearing comes from the mouth of its Maori title character, a traffic-light windscreen washer who goes by the name of Starfish and who, for more than half the film's running time, seems little more than a foul-mouthed extrovert with a borderline personality disorder..."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"Despite the fact that most things don’t work out for Starfish — he falls out over money with people who shelter and care about him, he loses his licence for driving offences, his children “dump him” — he remains optimistic. The film ends with his assertion that he has had a “good life, if maybe not a conventional one” — which rather than being a glib wrap-up is consistent with everything that has gone before in this riveting and provocative confessions of a window cleaner..."
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Metro Magazine
Metro MagazineSqueegee Bandit | Details
- Runtime
- 75
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
