The Last Face
Set amidst a political/social revolution, the movie tells the story of a physician/activist and a relief aid doctor whose love is tested not only by the grim situation they find themselves in, but also by a difference of opinion on how to solve the conflict.
22 November 1993, Paris, France
11 August 1980, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
30 July 1948, Casablanca, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
1 March 1969, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
1970, South Africa
May 02, 2017
A film that seems designed to reward the couple's protagonist at the expense of a confusing and extremely long narration. [Full review in Spanish]
April 26, 2017
Its last scene sums up the pseudo-charitable intentions that the film lodges while it falls in the same hypocrisy that it intends to denounce. [Full review in Spanish]
May 20, 2016
[A] stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn ...
June 29, 2016
Although it invests too much time on a corny romance, the film delivers when portraying the brutality of the genocides happening in South Sudan and in Liberia. [Full review in Portuguese.]
May 12, 2017
Lock this film in a vault and set it on fire.
May 20, 2016
By the time [Wren] wraps things up with a sententious speech about how dreams are more important than oxygen, both have been completely sucked out of the theater.
May 11, 2017
This drama seems more like a statement than a story.
May 20, 2016
Penn, who has become well-known for doing what he can to try and ease the agony of global crisis spots (like Haiti), would do well not to mistake his own genuine compassion for an artistic impulse.
May 02, 2017
A film systematically sabotaged by its fatuous sense of the intensity where the tears abound and the ideological commitment ends up segregating untold kitsch modalities. [Full review in Spanish]
May 08, 2017
Sean Penn's pompous, ethically bankrupt humanitarian aid drama would surely have worked better as a charity single.
February 22, 2017
Tainted by some of the worst dialogue ever written, it's impossible to connect to the characters on screen who, despite their best efforts and good looks, can't, for the life of them, find a way to lift the story out of the gutter.
