The Last Resort
NR, 75 min.
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dina Korsun, Paddy Considine, Artiom Streilnikov, Lindsey Honey.

Not reviewed at press time. A festival-circuit favorite, Last Resort is the first film in distribution company Shooting Gallery’s 2001 package tour of films — a package which last year circulated such films as the indie breakout hit Croupier and Iran’s A Time for Drunken Horses. Last Resort observes a naive young Russian woman and her streetwise son navigating the dreary waters of British immigration. What begins as a social drama reportedly morphs into a lyrical love story.

This article appears in April 20 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.