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Sep 11, 2019 · The Last Tree is more traditionally cinematic than Amoo’s previous feature, A Moving Image (2016), a multimedia film concerning gentrification. But the director sees a shared spirit between the two: “The Last Tree is very much informed by A Moving Image in the sense of how free and loose the latter is.
Jan 25, 2019 · Switching to outright narrative cinema after his restless multimedia debut “A Moving Image,” Amoo elastically distorts sound and image to convey the agitated, evolving inner life of unmoored...
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Jan 24, 2019 · A tender evocation of a lost childhood and troubled growth into manhood, Shola Amoo’s ( A Moving Image) partially-autobiographical The Last Tree is visually lyrical in its approach to an...
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Sep 27, 2019 · It’s a film whose surroundings vibrate in tune with its emotional mood. Thus Femi’s South London is a grim, grey enclave of brutal tower blocks, Amoo and DP Stil Williams giving it a very different look from the vibrant, gentrification-defying Brixton of Amoo’s first feature, 2016’s A Moving Image. Femi’s tough inner-city school is ...
Sep 29, 2019 · Shola Amoo, who received a warm critical reception for his feature debut A Moving Image (2016), returns to the big screen with another socially conscious and particularly british piece, this time examining the underprivileged youth of the UK; particularly the children battling to grow up against a backdrop of poverty, class war and racial ...
Jul 4, 2020 · An important British film, this is the story of a Nigerian boy growing up in England. I have rarely felt so conflicted in my responses while watching a film as I was with this second feature written and directed by Shola Amoo. I described his first feature, A Moving Image, as a promising piece with a keen sense of location.
The Last Tree is an advance on Amoo's gentrification film A Moving Image (2016) and announces him as an important British director - one whose work demands a multicultural audience.