Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

A simple love story – boy meets girl, they fall in love and get married – told in an unusual way, as it is compiled from shots borrowed from more than five hundred films, from Casablanca through Kurosawa and Kubrick to contemporary adventure films. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemenis not only a bold experiment that makes use of the collage techniques of found footage, but it is also an interesting point of departure for a discussion about the meaning and legitimacy of this sort of actor recycling. After all, what does it mean when particular scenes, removed from their original context and thrown into a radically different one, fails to detract from their power and impact granting them a new life as a result? Apparently, an actor playing one role simultaneously plays hundreds of others as well.