He soon becomes paranoid that he is the target of agency and go complicate matters even more so when he receives a letter in an ancient form of Hebrew. To confuse him more his house has been sublet to medical student Ellie Fabian (Janet Margolin). He suffers a breakdown and is released back to his life in New York but soon finds out they don’t have any assignments for him. Roy Schneider plays the government agent Harry Hannan whose wife was killed during an assignment.
Last Embrace is very much an homage or rip-off (whatever you want to call it) of the films of Alfred Hitchcock who for any director is one of those directors who just seeps into your cinematic DNA no matter how much you want to suppress his influence. Demme in more recent years has moved back to more independently minded feature work. His documentary work blossomed in this time which started back in the ’80s with his legendary Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Demme would have huge success with The Silence of the Lambs and throughout the ’90s and early ’00s struggle with being fundamentally an independent filmmaker but pricing himself out making more interesting work. Last Embrace is really the last film of him trying to make it as a Hollywood director, his next film would be much more independently minded Melvin and Howard. He worked for Roger Corman for most of the ’70s directing stuff like Caged Heat and Crazy Mama. Jonathan Demme is one of the always fascinating but often frustrating American directors to come out of the ’70s boom of New Hollywood.
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