Impressive visuals, strong performances and earnest intentions wrestle with an overly precious tone in an ambitious directorial debut
Few films at this year’s Sundance will start with quite the same confidence as The Last Man in San Francisco, a melancholic yet vibrant ode to a rapidly gentrifying city. Despite being inspired by a true story, director Joe Talbot places us in lush, stylised, often surreal territory as we meet two best friends, Jimmie and Mont, black men who find themselves pushed out by an increasingly white population.
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