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Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
- Director: David Shapiro; Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Writer: David Shapiro; Laurie Shapiro
- Producer: Peter Broderick; David S. Shapiro
CGiii Comment
What a vile little man - a Jewish, gay anthropologist from New York - all he does throughout this film is lick his own ass and moans, whines and complains.
A stereotype? Surely, not! He is screamingly stereotypical.
Okay...rather than waiting for a mind-numbing 90 minutes - here it is...he ate a sliver of human flesh - he is a cannibal...and, a fraud.
The filmmakers are tourists who took a shine to the old griper during his ponderous lectures and decided to make this disaster of a film.
Pieced together without much thought - it is a sickening reminder how putrid tourists can actually be (we've all been one)...especially those that insist on making a film and pretending it's not a home-movie.
Vile to the nth degree.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In 1955, while a Fulbright scholar, a Manhattan painter named Tobias Schneebaum spent seven months in the Amazon basin with the Harakambut. When he returned to the US, he could no longer paint. What happened? Nearly 45 years later, filmmakers want Tobias, now 78 and suffering from Parkinson's, to return to Peru. He refuses but allows that he will revisit the Asmat in New Guinea where he spent an idyllic time years before. That trip goes well, including a serendipitous meeting with Aipit, an aging native and once Tobias' friend and lover. Tobias then agrees to go to Peru to look for the people whom he joined on a murderous raiding party. The scars of war remain as does fear.
Cast & Characters
Tobias Schneebaum as Himself;
Norman Mailer as Himself;
Michael Nelson Rockefeller as Himself