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Release Date:
September 11, 2021
Original Title:
La dernière séance
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Altara Films
Bocalupo Films
Production Countries:
France | Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
Bernard just retired. He is 63 years old. He lives alone with his two cats and decides to move in the house where he will live the last chapter of the book of his life. While packing, he starts to have to choose what to take with him. Bernard is my master and I am his slave. His last lover. I help him put away his whip in a box, between the remains of his memory, tokens of lovers stripped from his arms by AIDS, traces of a foster family that pushed him away, of a rigid education that marked him, of a mother and a father that he never met. Our sexual games are the possibility for two generations to meet: between a whip and a leather harness we discuss love, death, the AIDS epidemic of the 80s, his new life project, us. The wounds and the grave goods of a survivor, a cry of life under the lights of sexual pulsions.
Director:
Gianluca Matarrese
Director of Photography:
Gianluca Matarrese
Editor:
Gianluca Matarrese
Giorgia Villa
Giovanni Donfrancesco
Producer:
Giovanni Donfrancesco
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