The Last Repair Shop

I cannot stress enough the value of watching this moving Documentary. As another user said, "not nearly long enough." It left me wanting more for sure- is a good way. Wonderfully written, shot, & edited. And the sound! Using the kids in the score recording was genius. You will not be sorry you spent the time. The experience helps remind you people have stories and are worth spending the time to listen & learn about. Music is such an important part of our lives. In so many unique and various ways sound touches us all. Whether you play or just listen- even if you play for your own pleasure or professionally, or casually listen or you're a diehard hard fan, music moves you.

"The Last Repair Shop" is a poem in prose, a hymn to memory and resistance against the tyranny of disposability. It is an invitation to celebrate the beauty of what was created with love, to listen to the stories that old objects have to tell.

At the end of the journey, we are touched by a sweet melancholy and a deep gratitude. Melancholy for the loss of a world where objects were valued and repaired, and gratitude for finding, amidst the fast pace of modern life, a haven where time slows down and memory finds shelter.

May this film inspire in each of us a passion for preservation, respect for the past, and the search for beauty in simple things. May we all be guardians of time, restoring not only objects, but also the memories that reside within them.

Far too short as it hardly touches on the actual repairs, instrument ones that is. That could have been technically interesting, but this is a story of how music and the provision of the instruments, often to those too poor to afford them can change or be a new start in their young lives. This is brought into focus by the same effects that music had on the repair staff themselves, as they each recount the difficulties and for some the deep emtional trauma that they still carry. For one of whom, reminded me of the stories told and witnessed by Jewish families, with the same lasting bewilderment of how, why then their lives changed in an instant., what it was is no longer.

A lovely documentary!

A simple concept, but done with so much care.

A fantastic camera work, brilliant editing, beautiful use of music and sound design.

Love the delicacy with which the stories of people are told. Heavy subjects are touched through great interviews and minimum archival footage. So many emotions - from smiles to tears.

The ending credits are done so creatively.

Through documenting the repair shop the film tells a story of a whole society. And the importance of art for healing the same society.

A very professional short documentary that I would recommend everyone to watch.

It is a film as useful kick to hope. Maybe, in some measure, to forms of joy.

Four people, fixing musical instruments of students, offer their stories.

Few young musicians confesse their strong connection with their instrument.

In Los Angeles , a repair shop, maybe the last, offering, from 1959, the support for good fonction of musical instruments.

Not the story itself is real significant, but the state inspired by the words of this people. Because it is a sort of return to the comfort of survive, in almost brave manner, of a stable old world , defined by dedication and by passion and personal dramas and careful gestures and empathy.

Beautiful documentary, no doubts. But, first, profound useful.