Joe Talbot
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
7.3 
8.2A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
- Director: Joe Talbot
- Main Cast: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors
- Soundtrack: Emile Mosseri
- Cinematography: Adam Newport-Berra
- Screenplay: Joe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, Rob Richert
Cinema Premiere: June 7, 2019
| Production Year | 2019 |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.66:1 |
English reviews
6 english reviews of The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
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10 / 10
Giving up is always just a single moment of weakness away. And a shot of a lonely man rowing through choppy waters under the Golden Gate Bridge sends things into the realm of pure poetry.
- Joshua Rothkopf -
8.8 / 10
"The Last Black Man in San Francisco" presents a cinematic vision as fresh as it is necessary
- Barry Hertz -
8 / 10
Emile Mosseri’s swooning and beautiful soundtrack matches the lovingly accomplished cinematography, creating an atmosphere that’s both welcoming, and mournful for the slow death of a community.
- Kambole Campbell -
8 / 10
A patchwork of impressions, ruminations and unsolved mysteries, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" teems and even overflows with life and love, some might argue at the cost of narrative focus or momentum. That strikes me as precisely the point. Leisurely in its rhythms and urgently political in its concerns, the movie stands in humble, defiant opposition to the forces that are shaping and homogenizing too much of our own contemporary reality, the impulse to hurry not least among them. You don’t truly know something — a city, a house, a life or a work of art — until you’re willing to meander.
- Justin Chang -
7.5 / 10
"The Last Black Man in San Francisco" doesn’t follow an established playbook. It tries to write a new one, earnestly to life as it’s lived and dreamed. Individual elements linger in the mind long after the film concludes: Fails and Montgomery’s unconventional yet heartfelt friendship, which never collapses into archetypal territory; the twin immersive forces of Emile Mosseri’s orchestral score and Newport-Berra’s autumnal color palette; and stunning montages of San Francisco streets which operate like fierce urban advocacy.
- Vikram Murthi
International reviews
1 foreign reviews of The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
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4 / 5
Translated from swedish: It is an irresistibly charming yet realistic film, with a poetic vein that tackles macho culture, the absent father, and the danger of getting stuck in the past.
- Stefan HedmarkSwedish: aftonbladet.se »
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Box Office
The Last Black Man in San Francisco has earned a total of 4 637 830 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. The Seattle Times
It’s, above all, a symbol of Jimmie’s hopes for the future. He dreams of being somehow able to own it. The dream is built on hope — and the hope is so strong it shapes and distorts his perception of his family’s history. Believing something to be so, he learns, doesn’t necessarily make it so, no matter how strong the desire to believe.
- Soren Andersen
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