Last Words

Franz Wright

Overview

A documentary unlike any other, set to the words that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright secretly recorded for his wife Beth Oehlkers Wright during the years he battled against terminal cancer. M. A. Littler’s subtle, almost static, but powerfully affecting visual meditation, cued to Wright’s voice and a gossamer score, captures poetry as it comes into being, a beautiful rumination on the life of the poet, the poignancy of mortality, and the meaning of love that sustains the high note of lament for the dissipation of experience into memory, and memory into darkness, capturing it in its passage and caressing it as it goes.