The Golden Boat (1990)

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas The Golden Boat is a madcap surreal dash through the streets of New York city telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged streetperson named Austin a comically compulsive assassin as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams In the course of their adventures Austin pursues his object of desire a Mexican soap opera star and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of Gods existence