The Last Supper

Réalisé par Cynthia Roberts

Canada, 1995 (fiction, 96 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Autre titre : « Das letzte Abendmahl »

Description du film [en anglais] :
« Dancer (Ken McDougall) dying of AIDS choreographs the last ninety minutes of his life before choosing to have euthanasia performed by a compassionate doctor (Daniel MacIvor) to end his suffering. Director Cynthia Roberts and producer/co-screenwriter Greg Klymkiw shot this harrowing drama at the Casey House AIDS Hospice in Toronto. Veteran actor McDougall slipped into a final coma and died four days after shooting was completed. »
-- Winnipeg Film Group (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Greg Klymkiw, Hillar Liitoja, Cynthia Roberts
Source originale :	The Last Supper, une pièce de Hillar Liitoja
Produit par :	Greg Klymkiw
Interprètes principaux :	Daniel MacIvor, Ken McDougall, J.D. Nicholsen
Images :	Harald Bachmann
Montage images :	Cynthia Roberts, Su Rynard
Musique :	Nicholas Stirling
Société de production :	Greg Klymkiw Productions

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Citation sur The Last Supper [en anglais]

« Ken McDougall was actually dying of AIDS as the film [The Last Supper] was being shot and died a few days after the end of production. When I saw the film for the first time at the Vancouver Film Festival in the fall of 1994, I didn't know about McDougall's condition, which [Cynthia] Roberts and [Greg] Klymkiw discussed only after the screening. Yet I knew from the first few images of the film that the actor was at once performing and not performing death, at once playing the role of a dying man and simply being a dying man. As much as his voice and body language seemed contrived in the performance of terminal illness, his body was speaking of death in a way that no actor can reproduce. »
-- André Loiselle (source)

Bibliographie sur The Last Supper

Brèves parties de livres

LOISELLE, André. Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. [en anglais] (pp. 206-208)

Sites Web sur The Last Supper

« IMDb: The Last Supper », Internet Movie Database, Inc, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110310/reference. [en anglais]