The Blackout
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Director: Abel Ferrara
1997 / 98min / 35mm
Movie star Matty (Matthew Modine), burned out on Hollywood, strung out on opioids, and spurned by his girlfriend (Beatrice Dalle) after proposing marriage, sets off on a bender for the ages with pal Mickey (Dennis Hopper), a fanatic proselytizer for video technology who’s planning to make a movie of Emile Zola’s Nana. Matty survives the night but, after a year of sobriety, is driven by a terrible suspicion to investigate what, exactly, happened in the wee, crack-addled hours of that particular evening. Made the year before Ferrara’s collaboration with Asia Argento on New Rose Hotel, The Blackout shares that film’s interest in narrative doublings and the unreliability of memory, and both films, of course, give evidence of Ferrara as our foremost director of down-and-dirty demoiselles.
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
35mm print courtesy of Anthology Film Archives
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