Last Words

As a matter of personal preference, I do not watch R rated movies. I chose this movie for two reasons ; one it was a featured selection at Cannes film festival and two it was PG-13. IT IS NOT PG - 13!! There is full frontal male and female nudity. Not just for a brief flash but for full scenes. There's also a female to male rape. There is also an extended close-up of the genitals of a hermaphrodite.

It's a dystopian movie that takes place in 2085 but the dates do not add up. Nick Nolte talks about seeing a rock concert in 1975-- that would make him over 115! This could've been a really interesting movie. Well it WAS an interesting movie but the fact that they threw in those completely unnecessary nude scenes ruined it for me.

A beautiful dystopic story about the decline of mankind.

The story is beautiful and sad at the same time. This film portrays the last people on earth and at the same time it is a tribute to filmmaking and film history.

With simple means and a very small but incredibly talented cast this movie shows us what it means to be human in the most basic needs such as friendship and togetherness. It also shows interesting aspects of how human beings probably would act when modern day comforts are long gone.

This movie is not "easy going" so if you are into high action films then this is probably not for you. But if you enjoy a bit more slow paced and different drama this is the movie for you!

The more appropriate term is perhaps "speculative fiction", not sci-fi, with all its machines and dystopias. The poignant movie Last Words is ravishing and expansive, powerful yet delicate, explorative and rife with parables, and seen largely through the eyes of a youth who could easily be one of today's climate/economic migrants, cruelly wrenched from everything loved and familiar, and now wandering through a foreign world with eyes wide open (unlike the stultified natives around them). The lad's spoken idiom is Pulaar, which is widely spoken in Senegal and the Gambia (languages credited by IMDb include only English and Italian, but there's also German). The US-born director Nossiter speaks impeccable Italian, so he "gets" the flow and sound of foreign tongues. My fellow reviewer malenor (so far only two of us, Jan 2022) was perhaps expecting Deep Impact or something similar. If s/he had smoked a joint and laid back to absorb this heartfelt yet anguished allegory, s/he'd have had an entirely different experience and might have found personal enrichment. This poetic epic is not for the popcorn audience.

I am dying of pancreatic cancer right now so for me, this film had a special poignancy. If you care about humanity and appreciate living every moment in the present, you are likely to enjoy this film. It's also about the joy and power of film to document people's existence on this planet.

Kudos to the director for including so many delightful film clips, especially the clip from a rarely seen interview with Dennis Potter. Most of the clips are well-known such as Monty Python, Buster Keaton, etc.

Show your displeasure with the film industry by avoiding this clinker. The movie "Last Words" is a modern journey into morbidity and self-disgust. It starts going downhill around the halfway point and never recovers. I think the script writer must have suffered a mental breakdown.