Caught Stealing in Sight & Sound
Caught Stealing takes place in New York’s Lower East Side in 1998. It’s a milieu that Darren Aronofsky knows well, as this is where he made Pi (1998), the imaginative feature that kickstarted his directorial career. Since that attention-grabbing debut, Aronofsky’s path has taken some unpredictable turns. One the one hand, he has established himself a filmmaker with a proven track record for directing actors to Oscar contention in modestly budgeted star vehicles like The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010) and The Whale (2022), but he’s also been prone to taking wild leftfield swings in films like The Fountain (2006) and Mother! (2017); pictures that seemed designed to alienate as many audience members as they intrigued.
