Overview

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.

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Cast

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Milford Graves

John Buffalo Mailer

Ellen Burstyn

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Madyn G. Coakly

Paul Giamatti

Joan La Barbara

Stephen Payne

Aimee Mullins