How ’Motor City’ Helmer Ponciroli Found a Way to Wed Action, Music and an Almost Dialogue-Free Script: ‘I Think the Audience Is Smarter Than People Give Them Credit For.’

Filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”) is back in Venice with “Motor City,” a film with about three lines of audible dialogue driven by needle-drops, a terrific score and a charismatic cast of Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster in a love triangle and righteous revenge tale set in 1970s Detroit.

The film opens, though, with intense action as Ritchson guns down some adversaries on a gritty street while a banger from 1982, David Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” blasts out from the soundtrack. Quentin Tarantino used the song to great effect in “Inglourious Basterds,” and Ponciroli says Foster’s on-set playlist was the inspiration for using that song.

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