Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Last Suit (2017)


THE LAST SUIT  (2017)  
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    D: Pablo Solarz
    Miguel Ángel Solá, Ángela Molina, Martin Piroyansky,
    Natalia Verbeke, Olga Boladz, Jan Mayzel 
A very old man leaves Argentina on what will almost certainly be his last trip ever, to Poland, to look for an old friend, the one who saved his life after his escape from a concentration camp in 1945. This has been compared to David Lynch's "The Straight Story", and you can see the parallels. It's a quixotic, episodic journey with a protagonist whose willful stubbornness can make him a pain in the neck to deal with and at the same time accounts for his remarkable survival. Now, if he could just find a way to go from Paris to Warsaw by train without going through Germany.