Last Performance

Last Performance the fifth feature film from awardwinning 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 avantgarde 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 Julias costar 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