Love screening - short review - THE LAST IMPRESARIO by Gracie Otto

A documentary on the life and time of Michael White, a renowned and groundbreaking theatre and film impresario who is also regarded as a London trend setter and a lover of social gatherings and parties. The Last Impresario is part of a number of biographical documentaries presented at this year’s London Film Festival. Despite some structural difficulties, which particularly seems confusing in its beginning, it picks up and ends up being quite an interesting portrayal about a man who essentially made his fortune by refusing to grow up and dreading old age. The sadness of this tale, of course, is that in the end this common tragedy caught up to him, and Gracie Otto interviews him as a man weakened by a stroke and side effects of his lifestyle, living among the memories of his pictures and memorabilia of a time gone by. Big names such as Naomi Watts, John Waters, John Cleese and Kate Moss give great contributions that help uncover the intimate side of ‘the famous man you have never heard of’.