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Last Resort
Drama, Romance - 2000
7.3
94%
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Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya, intent on staying in England, is forced to apply for political asylum and transferred to Stonehaven, a grimy former seaside resort where refugees are housed.

Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
73 min
Release date:
23 Feb 2000
Country:
GB
Languages:
English, Russian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
13 wins & 7 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Pawlikowski ... renders the events of Last Resort so unsentimentally that they unfold with the authenticity of an affecting documentary.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Mar 2001
fresh:
Moving and eerily beautiful.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Mar 2001
fresh:
Gives grim and gritty a good name.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Mar 2001
fresh:
Dramatically low-key, Last Resort is beautifully acted, with striking realism.
– Eric Harrison,
Houston Chronicle,
30 Mar 2001
fresh:
One of the few films to get at the ways in which single mothers and their sons alternate being authority figures.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
26 Sep 2002
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