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      The Last City

      2020 1h 45m Drama List
      Reviews An archeologist and a weapons designer -- who, in a prior life, knew each other as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst -- meet at an archaeological excavation site in the Negev Desert and begin discussing love and war; a conversation they continue in the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva. The film then proceeds with changing actors in changing roles; a round dance that takes us to the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. The characters include: an old artist, who meets his younger self; a mother, who lives with her two grown sons -- a priest and a policeman; a Chinese woman and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist. Their dialogues deal with now obsolete social taboos, generational conflict, war guilt and cosmological musings. The architecture of each of the five cities serves as the third participant in the protagonists' dialogues, and completes their philosophical and metaphysical journeys. Read More Read Less

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      Roger Moore Movie Nation Emigholz wrote a lot of words for his actors to say, without getting that close to a clarity of message...Many a line-reading sounds metallic, not so much “acted” as read. Rated: 2/4 Oct 17, 2022 Full Review Lorry Kikta Film Threat The screenplay by Emigholz is a behemoth that somehow doesn't crash, although it seems like it could at any given moment. Rated: 7/10 Apr 9, 2021 Full Review Katie Duggan Film Daze Emigholz is a master architect even if the layout of his dream logic isn't always visible to his audience as he carries us into seemingly endless dimensions that keep opening up in front of us. Dec 27, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis An archeologist and a weapons designer -- who, in a prior life, knew each other as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst -- meet at an archaeological excavation site in the Negev Desert and begin discussing love and war; a conversation they continue in the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva. The film then proceeds with changing actors in changing roles; a round dance that takes us to the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. The characters include: an old artist, who meets his younger self; a mother, who lives with her two grown sons -- a priest and a policeman; a Chinese woman and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist. Their dialogues deal with now obsolete social taboos, generational conflict, war guilt and cosmological musings. The architecture of each of the five cities serves as the third participant in the protagonists' dialogues, and completes their philosophical and metaphysical journeys.
      Director
      Heinz Emigholz
      Screenwriter
      Heinz Emigholz
      Production Co
      Filmgalerie 451, Pym Film
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      German
      Runtime
      1h 45m