Final cut: Ladies & gentlemen

Hungary • 2012

Available for Bookings

An odds-on candidate for the greatest movie ever made, Final Cut is entirely composed of scenes from the greatest movies ever made. 

Spending over three years in the editing room, György Pàlfi created this extraordinary film by culling scenes from over 450 international films and assembling them into a kind of ramshackle narrative. Characters are born, grow up, fall in love, marry, and move into domestic life: Alain Delon exchanges glances with Marilyn Monroe, while Jackie Chan springs to the rescue of Jeanne Moreau. 

Pàlfi, director of such eccentric gems as Hukkle and Taxidermia, offers a history of the world as told by the movies.

-Synopsis courtesy of the New York Film Festival

György Pálfi
Zsófia Ruttkay

Director & writer
Co-writer

84 minutes
German, Hungarian, French, Cantonese, English, Spanish
English
Color and B&W
1.78:1
Dolby

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  • "Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen should be seen in a theatre as a shared experience, recalling the very early days of the artform when crowds would flock to see the latest flickering images. The millions of frames that have made up a century of cinema are honoured here in one of the most exhilarating montage constructs ever produced; it is a suitably grand yet deeply intimate work."

    Simon Foster

    Screen Space

  • "The greatest film about film ever made."

    Joshua Chaplinsky

    ScreenAnarchy

  • "The ultimate super cut...a feature film comprised of scenes from over four hundred films, and some TV shows, that form a cohesive narrative. It is a sight to behold."

    Film Pulse

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PAST SCREENINGS

American Cinematheque Los Angeles, CA • BAMCínematek Brooklyn, NY • New York Film Festival New York, NY • Telluride Film Festival Telluride, CO • VIFF Centre Vancouver, BC

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* Also available, György Pálfi's short films A Hal (1997), Shaman vs Icarus (2003), and I Will Not Be Your Friend (2009)