THE LAST SHOWGIRL - review
The Last Showgirl starring Palmela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis directed by Gia Coppola is a deep dive into ordinary life. Made even more impactful by Las Vegas. It’s a story all at once of the perils of reaching for glitz and glory, how time and changes can trap you. How getting older corners you. How thinking it will always go on can leave you short of planning for the future until it’s too late. How you can never really escape yourself. It lays bare the imperfectness of relationships. It touches on the times of beauty in part of our careers. The reaching to try to keep it alive. All this ground down into the true lives of ordinary people by the backdrop of Vegas. A city where change is always happening. The movie is not shot from the glitz of casinos but instead from backrooms of shows and parking lots with Vegas only seemingly a distant vision. A place you can’t touch completely or count on. So much of life can be like that, but above it all the movie showed how dreams an...