Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Matthew Barney
Director, Writer
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Norman III

Milford Graves
Norman II

John Buffalo Mailer
Norman I

Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Hathfertiti
Madyn G. Coakly
Hathfertiti

Paul Giamatti
Ptah-Nem-Hotep

Joan La Barbara
The Widow of Norman

Stephen Payne
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