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Last Performance (2006)

Last Performance (2006)

Drama
Release Date: 2006, September 20
Directors: Edwin Brienen
Countries: Germany, Netherlands, United States of America
Production: Ultra Vista prod.
Cast: René Ifrah, Cornell Adams, Eva Dorrepaal, Tomas Spencer, Esther Eva Verkaaik, Vincent Bagnall, Karen Joy Cifarelli

Overview:

Last Performance, the fifth feature film from award-winning European director Edwin Brienen, is set in the tumultuous New York theater world. Julia, a European actress who relocated to New York to try and make the big time, stars in an avant-garde theatre play, directed by the eccentric Magda. Inspired by obsessive philosophers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and LaVey - "Forget the weak, the virtuous ones and the compassionate ones" - Magda explores the dark side of life. Julia's co-star, herein, is Cooper who has an abusive relationship with the sexually frustrated Tom. Tom, unable to accept his homosexuality, in turn exploits Julia for his own sexual adventures. Cooper, enraged by jealousy, sets out for revenge and his actions, herein, trigger an inexorable wave of disintegration and misery. Soon, fact and fiction become indistinguishable as Julia too becomes the author of her own demise.

Keywords:

gay theme