Last Supper
  • motion picture
  • 52m

Last Supper

  • 1992
  • Director Robert Frank

The main characters (lawyer - son - wife - oriental girl - actor - a colleague) are getting ready for a book-signing party given to honor the writer. The event plays in an empty lot in Harlem. Fragments of the writer's old video tapes will interrupt the footage prior to the party. The film follows the events which happen to the six characters as they go to and return from - the party. Isolated - like fish in a bowl - the party is being watched by the neighbourhood. While the black people have to deal with the practicality of life, the party people are obsessed with their identity, their status, their success. But the writer himself never turns up. In the end, we can understand the artist's fear and his doubts; that is the irony... of belonging to an "elite group of New Yorkers".

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With Zohra Lampert, John Larkin, Taylor Mead, Chris Parker, William Rice, William Youmans
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Synopsis

The main characters (lawyer - son - wife - oriental girl - actor - a colleague) are getting ready for a book-signing party given to honor the writer. The event plays in an empty lot in Harlem. Fragments of the writer's old video tapes will interrupt the footage prior to the party.

The film follows the events which happen to the six characters as they go to and return from - the party. Isolated - like fish in a bowl - the party is being watched by the neighbourhood. While the black people have to deal with the practicality of life, the party people are obsessed with their identity, their status, their success.

But the writer himself never turns up. In the end, we can understand the artist's fear and his doubts; that is the irony... of belonging to an "elite group of New Yorkers".

Details

Duration
52m
Format
16mm, blow up 35mm, Farbe
Production
Coproduction Switzerland/England Produktion: Vega Film, World Wide International Television In Koproduktion mit: Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI, Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion et Television, BBC London, WDR, Migros Kulturprozent

Credits

Director
Robert Frank
Script
Robert Frank, Sam North, Michal Rovner
Producer
Ruth Waldburger, Martin Rosebaum
Cast
Zohra Lampert, John Larkin, Taylor Mead, Chris Parker, William Rice, William Youmans
Photography
Kevin Kerslake, Mustapha Barat, Robert Frank
Editing
Jay Rabinowitz
Sound
Scott Breindel, Mathew Price, Pierre-Alain Besse
Art direction
Tom Jarmush
Versions
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