When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity. Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.
When Max a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity. Unseen since its limited release in 1967 this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.
A young man wants to commit suicide publicly and in the presence of as many people as possible so persuades a public relations firm to exploit the event. Later he changes his mind but finds that by this time he is no longer in control of the situation.
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