Fuck You! El último show

"Un documento", according to the modest opening credit. In fact, a film that structures the precise gesture of filming the legendary concert presenting After Chabon by Sumo, at the Obras stadium on 10th October 1987. It was Luca Prodán, the band's charismatic front man, who asked for it to be filmed, because he didn't think he would live to the end of the year. And he was right. The pictures and editing of José Luis García, who organised the material nearly forty years later, fulfilled his friend's anxious request magnificently. The camera follows Luca so close up, out of its depth, that we often can't actually see or hear him properly. Jean-Pierre Beauviala said that video cameras with a built-in microphone were the perfect tool for “lazy ethnographers” who were unfazed by films “with no declared commitment, with no declared misframing”. The misframing in this film is not only found in its images but also in its sound. A musical documentary? Yes, only that the camera frames neither the music nor the concert, and what we discover is not so much what happens on the stage but rather in the surroundings thereof; in the dressing room, in the corridors outside the dressing room, in the neighbouring bars. A rejection of all prefabricated forms and a commitment to a pure and tough way of life to the end. As if the real show were in the preliminaries and not so much the concert itself, in the energy needed to get up on stage and not so much in what happens afterwards, in the daily life of someone who already knew themselves to be shadow, image.

Manuel Asín