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IFC FILMS Present 4:44 LAST DAYS ON EARTH

 Opening in theaters on March 23, 2012 The film will simultaneously be available nationwide on IFC Films’ video on demand platform, available to over 50 million homes in all major markets on March 23, 2012 Starring Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta and Natasha Lyonne Written and directed by Abel Ferrara

 How would we spend our final hours on Earth? And what does how we choose to die say about how we have chosen to live? In the inimitable Abel Ferrara's (GO GO TALES, KING OF NEW YORK) new film, this thought experiment takes on a visceral immediacy. With the planet on the verge of extinction, a New York couple, (Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh), cycles through moments of anxiety, ecstacy and torpor. As they sink into the havens of sex and art, and Skype last goodbyes in a Lower East Side apartment filled with screens bearing tidings of doom and salvation, 4:44: LAST DAYS ON EARTH becomes one of Ferrara's most potent and intimate expressions of spiritual crisis. The first fiction feature of Ferrara's to be filmed entirely in New York in over a decade, 4:44 is a mournful valentine to his beloved city.

 “GRADE: A- Ferrara’s most personal work, it’s also ironically the most life-affirming in a career defined by anger and grime.” -Eric Kohn, Indiewire 2011

Venice International Film Festival
Official Selection of the 2011 New York Film Festival