2014/02/12 (US) | Drama, Fantasy
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Matthew Barney
Director
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Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Norman III
Milford Graves
Norman II
John Buffalo Mailer
Norman I
Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Hathfertiti
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Madyn G. Coakly
Hathfertiti
Paul Giamatti
Ptah-Nem-Hotep
$ 5,000,000
$ 44,840
Released
Matthew Barney
Writer
Peter Strietmann
Director of Photography
Matthew D. Ryle
Production Design
Katie McQuerrey
Editor
Mike Bellon
Producer
Jonathan Bepler
Original Music Composer