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  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary Long before Art Deco was a movement and prior to the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the small apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast's brutal...

Directed By: Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch

  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2018
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 10 m

The Last Resort

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Long before Art Deco was a movement and prior to the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Drawn by the small apartments, low cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came by the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast's brutal...

Directed By: Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch

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Feb 26, 2019
The Last Resort could have been a slight, sunny picture postcard from Biscayne Bay. A piece of fluff that would delight our cravings for the past — whether or not we were actually around to observe that not too distant past firsthand. But instead it’s a heartfelt and jubilant love letter to a paradise found, lost, and reclaimed — Miami’s South Beach.
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Feb 7, 2019
Awash in colour and sunlight, the doc The Last Resort is both a modern cultural history of the confounding should-be-paradise that is Miami Beach, and a loving bio of a young, short-lived photographer who froze one of its moments in time.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
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Jan 10, 2019
Sweet’s work is a time capsule of a bygone era, preserved in glorious, saturated technicolor. He was the master of the unexpected composition, and in that sense, The Last Resort is a fitting tribute.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 28, 2019
In 70 short minutes, directors Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch skillfully pack their Miami Beach-centric documentary, The Last Resort, with a wealth of visual, emotional, social, cultural and historical significance.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 21, 2018
Presenting an evocative portrait of a now-bygone era in the city's past, The Last Resort delivers plenty of nostalgia as is spotlights the work of two photographers who captured the period with vivid immediacy.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 20, 2018
The cultural transformation and re-transformation of Miami Beach (specifically its southern tip, South Beach) is a story that’s fascinating, poignant, garish and, in some ways, befuddling.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Scholl Creative, Coffee and Celluloid Productions
Release Date Dec 21, 2018
Duration 1 h 10 m
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Website http://www.thelastresortmovie.com/
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