TheLastHillbilly

The Last Hillbilly

By Diane Sara Bouzgarrou & Thomas Jenkoe

Kentucky. For decades, Brian Ritchie’s family has been living in the heart of the Appalachians. But the mines have been shut down, with nothing to replace them. Caught between a mythical past and an indiscernible future, Brian is one of the last witnesses of a vanishing world that inspires his poetry.

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Festivals & Awards

Cannes International Film Festival 2020 – ACID

IDFA 2020 – Special Mention in First Appearance Competition

Torino Film Festival 2020 – Best International Documentary Award

The Shape of Life 2021 – Best Directing Award

Press

The film’s depiction of its subjects achieves a sense of empathetic closeness, much as in the stylised documentary portraits of Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea or Ramell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

Screen Daily

A poetic, puzzling and disorienting account of a family living in the heart of the Appalachians.

Cineuropa

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