Leaving Las Vegas
" Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas' (1995) is not a love story, although it feels like one, but a story about two desperate people using love as a form of prayer and a last resort against their pain. It is also a sad, trembling portrait of the final stages of alcoholism. Those who found it too extreme were simply lucky enough never to have arrived there themselves. Few films are more despairing and yet, curiously, so hopeful as this one, which argues that even at the very end of the road, at the final extremity, we can find some solace in the offer and acceptance of love." - Roger Ebert
DVD
Curator's Comments: Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic. Director: Mike Figgis Country: U.S.A.
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