The Last Supper
New York Asian Film Festival 2013
June 28 - July 11, 2013
U.S. Premiere!
From the director of City of Life and Death comes this hallucinatory history of the first Chinese Dynasty as told by the dying emperor.
U.S. Premiere!
As the first Han Emperor dies in 300 BC, his life flashes before his eyes in a splintered kaleidoscope of battle, betrayal, loves sold out, and romances sold short. Lu Chuan (The City of Life and Death, Kekexili) is one of China’s rising star directors and The Last Supper is his best yet, telling the story of the Han Dynasty in the form of an epic fever dream.
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