Last Performance

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Edwin Brienen

Writers

Edwin Brienen

Language

English

Country

Germany, Netherlands, United States of America

Release date

20 September 2006

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Eva Dorrepaal

  Julia

• 

  Tomas Spencer

  Cooper

• 

  Esther Eva Verkaaik

  Magda

• 

  René Ifrah

  Stranger

• 

  Cornell Adams

  J.C.

• Karen Joy Cifarelli

  Liz