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.
Directed by
Matthew Barney
Written by
Matthew Barney
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Hathfertiti
Debbie Harry
Singing Wake Guest
Paul Giamatti
Ptah-Nem-Hotep
Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti
Dick Cavett
Wake Guest
Aimee Mullins
The Ka of Norman / Isis
Larry Holmes
Wake Guest
Bobbi Starr
Garage Manager
Suzanne Bertish
Wake Guest
Fran Lebowitz
Wake Guest
Elaine Stritch
Eulogist
Lila Downs
Ranchera Singer
Salman Rushdie
Wake Guest
Cinqué Lee
Wake Guest
Joan La Barbara
The Widow of Norman
John Buffalo Mailer
Norman I
Milford Graves
Norman II
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Norman III
Madyn G. Coakly
Hathfertiti
Stephen Payne
Usermare
Jennie Knaggs
Nephthys
Herbert Perry
Set
Eugene Perry
Set
Brennan Hall
Horus
Shara Nova
Lieutenant Worden
Terrell Howard
R&B Singer
Belita Woods
Blues Singer
Lawrence Weiner
Wake Guest
Art Baron
Wake Ensemble

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