4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)
Directed by Abel Ferrara
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
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If the initial premise of Byrkit’s high-concept, quantum mechanics-driven narrative is slightly difficult to swallow, that’s only because a comet passing near Earth—and resulting in all sorts of supernatural phenomenon—rings of the deus ex machina that marred even good or great films by master directors, namely von Trier’s Melancholia and Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth .
The recent spate of onscreen Armageddons kicked off with Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, but we’ve also endured Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter and Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth.
Within the last year, two films—Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and Abel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day On Earth —speculated about the looming apocalypse, but from the fixed perspective of two or three characters with limited access to the outside world.
In the recent films Melancholia and 4:44 Last Day on Earth the characters are challenged to decide what to do while waiting for the end.
However, that makes it sound like a one-joke premise, a goof, some kind of light comic riff on Melancholia or 4:44 Last Day on Earth .
Its closing scenes call to mind countless End-Of tales with far superior vision, from Abel Ferrara’s “4:44 Last Day on Earth” to Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” and Don McKellar’s “Last Night.”
Over the past few years, we've seen a seemingly endless stream of films about the end of the world as we know it, including but not limited to " The Road ," " Melancholia ," " 4:44 Last Day on Earth " and " 2012 ."