The breakthrough feature of experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki, The Living End also marked a seminal moment in the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s. A startling synthesis of thriller, love story, comedy and road movie, it's a consciously political and uncompromising work that confronts mainstream America's fear of AIDs.
Luke (Mike Dytri) is a rootless hustler who's determined to "live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse," while Jon (Craig Gilmore) is a freelance writer whose life and stability are devastated when he finds out he's HIV positive. They meet by chance (or is it fate?), and when Luke kills a cop, they take to the road, embarking on a wild odyssey with devastating consequences.
Peppered with film references, specifically to other movies featuring couples on the run and powered by a soundtrack heavy on industrial music, The Living End is propelled by rage and indignation.
Luke (Mike Dytri) is a rootless hustler who's determined to "live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse," while Jon (Craig Gilmore) is a freelance writer whose life and stability are devastated when he finds out he's HIV positive. They meet by chance (or is it fate?), and when Luke kills a cop, they take to the road, embarking on a wild odyssey with devastating consequences.
Peppered with film references, specifically to other movies featuring couples on the run and powered by a soundtrack heavy on industrial music, The Living End is propelled by rage and indignation.
"Savagely funny, sexy, marked by humour, rage and finally, true romantic longing"
Rolling Stone
"Raw, dangerous and nihilistic"
San Francisco Chronicle
"A stylish, eloquent lovers-on-the-run movie with a radical, urgent twist"
Newsweek
Rolling Stone
"Raw, dangerous and nihilistic"
San Francisco Chronicle
"A stylish, eloquent lovers-on-the-run movie with a radical, urgent twist"
Newsweek
Details:
81 mins
RUNNING TIME
18
CERTIFICATE
0
REGION
4:3
ASPECT RATIO
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Directed by: Gregg Araki
Cast: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore
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