Last words

In the current context, the new film written and directed by Jonathan Nossiter refers us to the global pandemic we are currently experiencing, but also to the dangers we face if we do not protect our environment and especially the importance of cinema as a testimony of the past and as a source of inspiration for a better future. By placing the action in a future time, the year 2085, the story told presents us with the story of the last man on earth and all the violence he had to endure before finding a temporary haven of peace in Athens where the last survivors are trying to survive on a land that is not very fertile and a sea in which the fauna seems to have disappeared.

It is interesting to see through this film the interactions between our current reality and the world described in this film. In the same way, by adopting Santiago Amigorena's novel, My Last Words, on the screen, the screenwriter and director signals the alarm that we are currently building our future and that we must preserve both the nature that surrounds us and our cinematographic heritage that wonderfully illustrates our past and testifies to our present. Actor Kalipha Touray is flanked by a world-renowned cast of supporting actors including Nick Nolte, Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard.

Certainly Last words by the slowness of its action may not please everyone and seems much more intended for an adult audience and fervent defender of a free world cinema allowing free expression. Far from the diktats of the big American studios, Last Words fully deserves to appear in the official selection of Cannes 2020 and we can only encourage you to discover it when it is released in France on October 21st (no date currently communicated for a release in the United States).

Last Words
Written and directed by Jonathan Nossiter
Produced by Serge Lalou
Casting: Kalipha Touray, Nick Nolte, Charlotte Rampling, Alba Rohrwacher, Stellan Skarsgard
Music by Tom Smail
Cinematography : Clarissa Cappellani
Edited by Jonathan Nossiter
Production companies : Stemal Entertainment, Rai Cinema
Distribution: Jour2Fête (France)
Release date: Occtober 2020 (France)
Running time : 126mns

Seen on September 5, 2020 at the Centre International de Deauville

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