With his debut feature Last Swim, an ambitious and quietly radical portrait of young life in London, Sasha Nathwani has achieved one of the most difficult tasks for a new filmmaker: cutting through with a festival audience.
Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the festival’s Generation sidebar. The pic has been one of the more buzzy titles here on the ground in the German capital and is considered a frontrunner to pick up some gold when awards are announced this weekend.
Set over a sweltering exam results day in London, the pic follows Ziba, a promising British-Iranian teen, as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night,...
Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the festival’s Generation sidebar. The pic has been one of the more buzzy titles here on the ground in the German capital and is considered a frontrunner to pick up some gold when awards are announced this weekend.
Set over a sweltering exam results day in London, the pic follows Ziba, a promising British-Iranian teen, as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Deba Hakmat is impressively subtle as a British-Iranian teen whose celebrations come unstuck
Sasha Nathwani is a UK-based director of award-winning short films, of Iranian and Indian heritage, stepping up here to his feature debut. It opens the Generation strandin Berlin and is a sweet-natured, heartfelt and earnestly acted film; a little precious maybe, but saved from emo-sentimentalism by irreverent humour and a wittily self-aware final image of his leading actor’s face.
Last Swim is the story of Ziba, played by Deba Hakmat, an Iranian-British teen who has just stormed her A-levels and landed a place at University College London to read astrophysics; this is despite a certain attitude on the part of her interviewer who shows, if not microaggression, then microcondescension, pointedly asking if any other members of Ziba’s family ever studied this subject. Ziba has got intricately detailed plans for her and her 6th form mates...
Sasha Nathwani is a UK-based director of award-winning short films, of Iranian and Indian heritage, stepping up here to his feature debut. It opens the Generation strandin Berlin and is a sweet-natured, heartfelt and earnestly acted film; a little precious maybe, but saved from emo-sentimentalism by irreverent humour and a wittily self-aware final image of his leading actor’s face.
Last Swim is the story of Ziba, played by Deba Hakmat, an Iranian-British teen who has just stormed her A-levels and landed a place at University College London to read astrophysics; this is despite a certain attitude on the part of her interviewer who shows, if not microaggression, then microcondescension, pointedly asking if any other members of Ziba’s family ever studied this subject. Ziba has got intricately detailed plans for her and her 6th form mates...
- 2/16/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Sasha Nathwani’s feature film debut “Last Swim,” which opens the Generation 14plus competition at the Berlin Film Festival, will be represented for worldwide sales by Indie Sales.
Set over a hot summer day in London as the high-school year is ending, the film follows British-Iranian teen Ziba as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city, culminating in a once in a lifetime astronomical event. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the intrusive fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night, Ziba has no choice but to confront the irreversible event she has planned for the end of this last day of untainted adolescence.
The cast is led by Deba Hekmat (“Hoard”) and also includes Narges Rashidi (“Gangs of London”), Solly McLeod (“Tom Jones”), Jay Lycurgo (“Titans”), Denzel Baidoo...
Set over a hot summer day in London as the high-school year is ending, the film follows British-Iranian teen Ziba as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city, culminating in a once in a lifetime astronomical event. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the intrusive fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night, Ziba has no choice but to confront the irreversible event she has planned for the end of this last day of untainted adolescence.
The cast is led by Deba Hekmat (“Hoard”) and also includes Narges Rashidi (“Gangs of London”), Solly McLeod (“Tom Jones”), Jay Lycurgo (“Titans”), Denzel Baidoo...
- 2/1/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery thriller series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. The FX series revolves around an amateur Gen Z detective Darby Hart is invited with eight other guests to a retreat at a remote location from a reclusive billionaire. When one of the guests is found dead, Darby must solve the case before the killer takes another life.
The new series gets more and more exciting with each episode and Darby has to be one of the best Gen Z characters ever put to screen. The FX mystery series has captured the hearts and minds of millions since its premiere.
A Murder at the End of the World – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?) Credit – FX
A Murder at the End of the World consists of seven episodes in total with the first two premiering on FX and...
The new series gets more and more exciting with each episode and Darby has to be one of the best Gen Z characters ever put to screen. The FX mystery series has captured the hearts and minds of millions since its premiere.
A Murder at the End of the World – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?) Credit – FX
A Murder at the End of the World consists of seven episodes in total with the first two premiering on FX and...
- 11/30/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Emma Corrin as Darby Hart and Harris Dickinson as Bill in ‘A Murder at the End of the World’ episode 3 (Photo Cr: Chris Saunders/FX)
FX’s A Murder at the End of the World episode three picks up after the first in-person meeting of Darby (Emma Corrin) and Bill (Harris Dickinson) shown in episode two. Darby and Bill are on their way to see the surviving victim, and the duo make a pit stop to where one of the victim’s body was found.
Back to present time, and Darby stares at the footage from Bill’s doorbell camera she hacked into that shows a masked figure. After vowing to catch who did this, Darby heads to where the other guests have congregated. Darby speaks with Rohan (Javed Khan) who seemed deeply affected when it was announced Bill had died. Before she can get any further information from him,...
FX’s A Murder at the End of the World episode three picks up after the first in-person meeting of Darby (Emma Corrin) and Bill (Harris Dickinson) shown in episode two. Darby and Bill are on their way to see the surviving victim, and the duo make a pit stop to where one of the victim’s body was found.
Back to present time, and Darby stares at the footage from Bill’s doorbell camera she hacked into that shows a masked figure. After vowing to catch who did this, Darby heads to where the other guests have congregated. Darby speaks with Rohan (Javed Khan) who seemed deeply affected when it was announced Bill had died. Before she can get any further information from him,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Alison Helms
- Showbiz Junkies
Emmy Award nominee Emma Corrin (The Crown) stars as Darby Hart, a character described as a Gen Z Sherlock Holmes, in FX’s A Murder at the End of the World. The trailer reveals Darby has a special talent for solving mysteries, a talent she’ll need to put to good use just to stay a step ahead of a killer.
The cast of the seven-episode limited series includes Clive Owen as Andy Ronson, Harris Dickinson as Bill Farrah, Brit Marling as Lee Andersen, Alice Braga as Sian, and Joan Chen as Lu Mei. Raúl Esparza plays David, Jermaine Fowler is Martin, Ryan J. Haddad is Oliver, Pegah Ferydoni is Ziba, and Javed Khan is Rohan.
A Murder at the End of the World also stars Louis Cancelmi as Todd, Edoardo Ballerini as Ray, Britian Seibert as Eva, Christopher Gurr as Marius, Kellan Tetlow as Zoomer, and Daniel Olson as Tomas.
The cast of the seven-episode limited series includes Clive Owen as Andy Ronson, Harris Dickinson as Bill Farrah, Brit Marling as Lee Andersen, Alice Braga as Sian, and Joan Chen as Lu Mei. Raúl Esparza plays David, Jermaine Fowler is Martin, Ryan J. Haddad is Oliver, Pegah Ferydoni is Ziba, and Javed Khan is Rohan.
A Murder at the End of the World also stars Louis Cancelmi as Todd, Edoardo Ballerini as Ray, Britian Seibert as Eva, Christopher Gurr as Marius, Kellan Tetlow as Zoomer, and Daniel Olson as Tomas.
- 11/13/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
We are at a place where humanity exists between two spheres. The “real world” is our tangible environment. We can touch things, unpacking textures, tastes and scents. And then, there is another world. Though artificial, and born of the internet and technology, AI is more life-like than ever. Innovation, after all, is infinite. While many of us glide between both sectors, Gen Z and the Alpha generation are coming of age, having only ever been interconnected and heavily online. For better or for worse, this way of living will affect human beings until it all goes dark.
For Darby Hart (a captivating Emma Corrin), the character at the center of creators/directors Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s ominous but wholly fascinating “A Murder at the End of the World,” tech and the internet are lifelines. Raised by her single father, a coroner in the tiny town of Lost Nation,...
For Darby Hart (a captivating Emma Corrin), the character at the center of creators/directors Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s ominous but wholly fascinating “A Murder at the End of the World,” tech and the internet are lifelines. Raised by her single father, a coroner in the tiny town of Lost Nation,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Aramide Tinubu
- Variety Film + TV
Toward the end of “A Murder at the End of the World,” Ziba (Pegah Ferydoni), one of the guests staying at a billionaire’s Icelandic bunker, sums up the horror of the A.I. technology that the tech giant whose retreat they’re attending has created. Ray, the name given to the humanized smart computer overseeing every guest’s whim, is “an us, without feeling.” The line is not simply meant to highlight the danger of the soullessness of artificial intelligence— how, as many critics of theChat Gpt era would say, advanced technology can never replicate our ineffable humanity, no matter how impressively it spits things out of its data churner.
The real terror is the “us” part. If A.I. takes our data and reflects ourselves back to us, it is a mirror of an often disfigured society.
Countless films and TV shows have reckoned with the idea of...
The real terror is the “us” part. If A.I. takes our data and reflects ourselves back to us, it is a mirror of an often disfigured society.
Countless films and TV shows have reckoned with the idea of...
- 11/13/2023
- by Brandon Yu
- The Wrap
Plot: A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery series with a new kind of detective at the helm — a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker named Darby Hart. A reclusive billionaire invites Darby and eight other guests to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests before the killer takes another life.
Review: In recent memory, three types of whodunits have made wide release. There is the traditional, Agatha Christie-style whodunit (Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express and its sequels), the modernized whodunit (Rian Johnson’s Knives Out), and the neo-noir whodunit (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). Upon seeing the trailer for A Murder At the End of the World, I expected...
Review: In recent memory, three types of whodunits have made wide release. There is the traditional, Agatha Christie-style whodunit (Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express and its sequels), the modernized whodunit (Rian Johnson’s Knives Out), and the neo-noir whodunit (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). Upon seeing the trailer for A Murder At the End of the World, I expected...
- 11/7/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
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