#1374 The Last Bus (2021)

[Kasi Mir]

"The Last Bus" was written by Joe Ainsworth as his first feature-length film; the English sceeenwriter mainly works for television where he has penned numerous episodes of soaps "Brookside" and "Holby City" and cotributed to other long-running dramas as well. His script - which chronicles the journey from the northernmost to the southernmost point of Britain, made by a pensioner and exclusively by local bus - was realized by veteran Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon, who previously directed Steve Martin in "A Simple Twist of Fate", Kate Winslet in "Hideous Kinky", and presented house-swap dramedy #0576 "Tara Road" back in 2005. Here's the trailer for the last bus:



And how did you enjoy this different kind of road movie (and perhaps advertisement for the current 9-Euro ticket in Germany)? How did you like the performances, by Timothy Spall and Ben Ewing as Tom, by Phyllis Logan and Natalie Mitson as his wife Mary, plus many other actors who played people Tom met on the way? How did you like the structure of a classic road movie (just by bus, not by car), interwoven with little episodes on the way and flashbacks to Tom and Mary life? Please let us know what you think of this film in a reply to this posting.

[Roughale]

Ich war sehr angetan von dem Film, wie charmant dieses doch irgendwie sehr traurige Thema umgesetzt wurde, was besonders am guten Schauspiel Ben Ewings liegt, hat mich sehr positiv überrascht. Zu Beginn des Films waren es die schönen Bilder aus Schottland und im Verlauf mehr und mehr (mit jedem Bus sozusagen und wie in England/Schottland üblich, fast immer anders aussehende) die sich darlegende Lebensgeschichte. Zwar war vieles vorhersehbar, aber einige Details waren dann doch noch dabei, die ich nicht so habe kommen sehen... Und die herzzerreissenden Szenen, wie der Besuch des Grabes mit allen Details waren dann doch schön traurig, oder traurig schön? Muss jeder selbst entscheiden, was besser passt...

Ich gebe eine 2

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