![]() ![]() La Ultima Pelicula is a collage it’s a portrayal no, it’s a capricious and frustratingly provocative challenge that isn’t afraid to make fun of itself. Some scenes and dialogue are directly lifted from American Dreamer. It’s style over substance and substance hindered by style. ![]() ![]() He does this, of course, while wearing a ridiculous cowboy hat, bandana, and jean jacket in forty degree plus weather. As people chant empty litanies, Perry endlessly comments on how Westerners appropriate cultures. Perry’s director character, prattles on about how important his work is in the general scheme of things, all the while poking fun at the fake hippies that have converged on Chichen Itza for the end of the world. It takes a lot of introspection and self-absorption to write a book or make a movie: you have to essentially own and dominate the medium and the people you are working with. Taking this as the background to the endless self-important, stream of consciousness style of dialogue coming out of Perry, it makes for a colourful portrait of film visuals and satirical portrayal of the process of filmmaking. The film utilizes eight different film formats interspersing them with various filters and tones to present a sort of deterioration on not just filmmaking, but the state of the materials used in film. His guide, played by a hilarious Gabino Rodriguez, accompanies Perry as he navel gazes about the end of film and contemporary art. His guide, played by a hilarious Gabino Rodriguez, accompanies Perry as he navel gazes about the end of film and contemporary art.Īlex Ross Perry plays a fictionalized version of himself: a filmmaker who travels to the Yucatan in search of locations for his last movie on the eve of the Mayan apocalypse. Raya Martin and Mark Peranson’s La Ultima Pelicula takes this concept and modernizes it (and the documentary on it: American Dreamer), in a time when hipsterdom and the art of the rehash/remake has the world declaring the death of every form of artistic expression.Īlex Ross Perry plays a fictionalized version of himself: a filmmaker who travels to the Yucatan in search of locations for his last movie on the eve of the Mayan apocalypse. It was made during a time when cinema thought it was in the midst of its own demise in the midst of economic and cultural transitions. A horse wrangler decides to quit film, shacks up with a Peruvian whore, and goes on a cinematic hallucinatory trip while philosophizing on storytelling and the making of movies. It’s over forty years since Dennis Hopper made The Last Movie. For more information on the festival visit and follow TIFF on Twitter at TIFF_NET. Cast: Iazua Larios, Alex Ross Perry, Rene RedzepiĬountry: Mexico | Denmark | Canada | PhilippinesĮditor’s Notes : The following review is part of our coverage of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. ![]()
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