The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Dweck divides his efforts between elegiac tone poem and shaggy-dog ensemble piece.
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United States · 2018
1h 15m
Director Michael Dweck
Starring
Genre Documentary
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A cinematic portrait of a small town stock car track and the tribe of drivers that call it home as they struggle to hold onto an American racing tradition. The avant-garde narrative explores the community and its conflicts through an intimate story that reveals the beauty, mystery and emotion of grassroots auto racing.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Dweck divides his efforts between elegiac tone poem and shaggy-dog ensemble piece.
This graceful, ruminative fragment of scrap-metal Americana marks a distinguished foray into feature filmmaking for renowned narrative photographer Dweck.
The Hollywood Reporter by Justin Lowe
Unconventional in style and contemplative in tone, The Last Race represents more of a living document of a dwindling American subculture than a typical sports documentary.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
The Last Race is a high art film about a blue-collar subject, and that unlooked-for ability to see beauty in the everyday is what makes it both a surprise and a success.
Dweck mixes cheerfully amateurish interviews and staged moments with the driving community and track eco-system with poetic and visceral footage of the action on the track, racing sequences often set to sacred choral music by Mozart.
RogerEbert.com by Tomris Laffly
An empathetic examination of the traditional lifeline of a tight-knit community, threatened to be torn apart by an inevitable wave of capitalist takeover.
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