Ladies & Gentlemen
Final Cut:
Hungary • 2012An odds-on candidate for the greatest movie ever made, Final Cut is entirely composed of scenes from the greatest movies ever made.
Spending over three years in the editing room, György Pàlfi created this extraordinary film by culling scenes from over 450 international films and assembling them into a kind of ramshackle narrative. Characters are born, grow up, fall in love, marry, and move into domestic life: Alain Delon exchanges glances with Marilyn Monroe, while Jackie Chan springs to the rescue of Jeanne Moreau.
Pàlfi, director of such eccentric gems as Hukkle and Taxidermia, offers a history of the world as told by the movies.
Synopsis courtesy of the New York Film Festival
Written & directed by: György Pálfi
Co-written by: Zsófia Ruttkay
Run time: 84 minutes
Language: German, Hungarian, French, Cantonese, English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Color: Color and B&W
Format: 1.78:1
Sound: Dolby
PAST SCREENINGS
American Cinematheque Los Angeles, CA • BAMCínematek Brooklyn, NY • New York Film Festival New York, NY • Telluride Film Festival Telluride, CO • VIFF Centre Vancouver, BC
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* Also available, György Pálfi's short films A Hal (1997), Shaman vs Icarus (2003), and I Will Not Be Your Friend (2009)