The Last Resort (2018)

Directed by

Kareem Tabsch, Dennis Scholl

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the decline of South Beach in the 1970s and 80s using photographs from that era. It shows how a once affordable retirement haven for Jewish seniors turned into a dangerous place due to crime and neglect.

nostalgicobservationalgroundedbittersweetinformativereflectivequietevocative

What happens

The Last Resort is a documentary film about Miami Beach directed by Dennis Scholl and Kareem Tabsch. It features photographs taken between 1976 and 1986 by photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe. The film focuses on the transformation of South Beach between the 1960s and 1980s. In the 1960s South Beach was an inexpensive retirement community, populated largely by working and lower middle class Jewish retirees. By the early 1980s the housing was deteriorating, and, in the wake of the Mariel boatlift and the Miami drug war South Beach became a dangerous neighborhood. Context and commentary are provided by interviews with Susan Gladstone, Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, who grew up in South Beach, and Edna Buchanan, a crime novelist who grew up in Miami Beach and covered crime for Miami newspapers in the period documented by Monroe and Sweet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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