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The Last Chapter (2019)
Director: Raj Singh Chaudhary
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Misthi Chakraborty
Runtime22 min
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Even the cause of gender equality and women's emancipation can be fraught with severely problematic ideologies, as this film goes ahead to portray. Kay Kay Menon, an activist in the gender space, is about to be awarded the Padma Shri for all his work. The narrative progresses to reveal his saviour syndrome, among other extremely problematic views, further accentuating the irony between his public image and personal practice. However, as he sits down to write the final chapter of his book about women's rights, has his past finally caught up with him?
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The Last Chapter (2019) directed by Raj Singh Chaudhary offers a compelling exploration of the complexities and contradictions within the gender equality movement, featuring a powerful performance by Kay Kay Menon as an activist whose public image clashes with his private views and actions.
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The Last Chapter is a French-Italian documentary film, directed by Gianluca Matarrese and released in 2021. The film is a portrait of Bernard Guyonnet, a gay man in Paris, France, who is entering retirement and pondering his legacy as a person still scarred by having lost two partners to HIV/AIDS in his younger days.
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