2000 · drama · british
Last Resort
Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski1h 13m2000
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. Tanya gradually develops a relationship with an amusement arcade manager, who helps them escape. She must then decide whether to stay with him or return to Russia.
Our read: Last Resort (2000) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · british entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / british, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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