The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Director: Joe Talbot

2019 / 121min / DCP

An elegiac, melancholy, and frequently ravishing tribute to the rapidly gentrifying hometown of lead actor and story co-writer Jimmie Fails, based in part on his own life experience, Talbot’s assured debut follows the everyday travails of Jimmie and his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors), who one day decide to take up a squatter’s claim on a Victorian manor in the Fillmore district that Jimmie claims to have been built by his grandfather. An indelible poetic-realist cinematic reverie about the elusive search for home, and a city symphony whose tone moves effortlessly between eulogy and exultation.