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Written and Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
UK, 2000
73 minutes
A Shooting Gallery Release
"**** (four stars)"
- David Ansen, Newsweek
"An almost romantic sense of visual beauty. The film leaves you with a
feeling of having glimpsed something essential about the way the world is
now."
- A.O. Scott, New York Times
"An impressive film. The best kind of poetic realism."
- Kenneth Turan, Los
Angeles Times
British filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowki's beautifully observed drama LAST RESORT, an unforgettable tale of a Russian mother and son navigating the complex waters of British immigration, has been celebrated at film festivals around the world including Edinburgh (Best British Independent Film), Thessaloniki (Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Int'l Critics Prize), London (Int'l Critics Prize), Venice and Toronto, and the Sundance Film Festival.
Tanya (Dina Korzun of The Land of the Deaf), young and naïve, leaves Moscow with her streetwise 10-year-old son (Artiom Strelnikov) expecting to meet her English fiancé. He fails to appear at the airport and in a moment of desperation Tanya asks for political asylum. The two are classified as refugees and immediately dispatched to a soulless seaside resort with thousands of other immigrants. Virtually imprisoned, they have no passports, no money, no rights.
Facing limited opportunities to escape, the ordeal threatens Tanya's moral beliefs and pushes her to new levels of vulnerability. The mother and son are soon befriended by the manager of a local amusement arcade (Paddy Considine of A Room for Romeo Brass), and his friendship with Tanya develops into something much deeper. His generosity and affection help her and the boy through their predicament as she decides exactly where her future lies. With echoes of the style of British social-realist greats Alan Clarke and Ken Loach but with a lyricism and unique humanism all its own, LAST RESORT is a blast of fresh air, marking Pawel Pawlikowski as an original new filmmaking talent.
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