THE LAST
ROCK AND ROLL
MOVIE

The film was made over years of work, with more than 400 hours of filmed material, archive footage, interviews and personal memories. It sketches a portrait of singer Johnny Thunders, a myth from the New York punk-rock scene in the 70s and 80s, who founded the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, and who was dedicated to a way of life literally lost between sex, drugs and rock and roll, which took his life of only 39 years in 1991.
"One day I was approached by a young girl who wanted me to meet johnny's son in prison: he was her companion and they also had had a baby together. This struck me hard: it was a signal that while I had been making this film life had gone on, that from Johnny's obscurity something else had been born. I would think that I could never convey this ideain the film, and so I would fiddle with it some more, until I had made several different versions of it. But, in reality, this is a film that would never end, because there was no answer to the things that I was seeking. For me, Johnny Thunder remains an enigma: he was a great musician. When he was on stage he was truly exciting, but, as a person, I didn't like him."