Locarno winner, THE LAST FAMILY Screens at ND/NF with Director in Person

Official Selection, 2017 New Director/New Films

2016 Locarno Film Festival, International Competition

Winner, Best Actor, Locarno Film Festival

Based on the bizarre true story of the cult Polish painter Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski. First narrative feature from the director of the award-winning documentary DEEP LOVE

Born in 1929, Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski (Andrzej Seweryn, Schindler's List) a Polish surrealist painter famous for his eerie post-apocalyptic works, is a cult artist who has portrayed decaying bodies and fantasized of hard core S&M sexual experiences. Known for his keen sense of humor, he is also scared of spiders and tending to his sick mother. His neurotic, suicidal son, Tomasz, is a cult radio DJ and translator, responsible for the Polish versions of Monty Python films. His wife, Zofia Beksi?ska, a devoted Catholic, endures these two eccentrics and glues THE FAMILY together. As the parents try to prevent their son from hurting himself, their lives are defined by painting, a series of near-death experiences, funerals and changing trends in dance music.

New Directors/New Films Public Screenings

Thursday, March 16th at 8:45pm, MoMA Titus 2

Saturday, March 18th at 9:15pm, Walter Reade Theater

*Director in person at both screenings

TRT: 124 minutes

Country: Poland

Language: in Polish with English subtitles

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski

Writer: Robert Bolesto

Producers: Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Hickinbotham

Cinematographer: Kacper Fertacz

Starring: Andrzej Seweryn, Dawid Ogrodnik, Aleksandra Konieczna, Andrzej Chyr

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