Last Picture Show - Director’s Cut (1971)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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A yearning paean for a lost time in one’s life when the future was bright and shiny and a girl’s thighs were deepest, darkest Africa. Yet, it is never the last time because it is always the last - since history continually repeats itself. Many of the characters here believe their boat has sailed and life has passed them by - the women especially complain because their men have no ambition. In this one-horse-town nothing much happens yet it encapsulates so much about our everyday lives that the world outside of it seems pale and without merit: A virtual ghost town filled with living, breathing people.

A perfect cast bring the screenplay beautifully to life in a well-directed film whose nostalgia makes you nostalgically wonder why the US cannot seem to make films as good as this any more.

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