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The Last Laugh
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
19 January 1923, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
17 July 1952, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
22 June 1971, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 December 1956, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 May 1937, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1926, Newark, New Jersey, USA
17 November 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 November 1962, Newark, New Jersey, USA
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
28 May 1944, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 09, 2017
The Last Laugh is a multifaceted and extremely thought-provoking documentary about the place of comedy in contending with the Jewish genocide during WWII.
March 03, 2017
There are a lot of fascinating flashes.
March 09, 2017
What's fascinating is the difference in perspectives.
March 10, 2017
It remains an enlightening conversation. And the movie is that: a conversation, not a thesis erecting an argument.
March 23, 2017
Sit down with The Last Laugh and have the last laugh over those who committed horrors in the past, are doing so now, and will in future.
April 01, 2017
Part of the film's charm is in its reluctance to sit on one side of the fence, and it instead acknowledges the plurality of experiences and interpretations.
March 16, 2017
At times haphazard but always involving ...
March 13, 2017
Intriguing in that it lays out the case that we can now make jokes about the Holocaust and lets the viewers decide for themselves whether they've made the point.
March 09, 2017
Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh is a rather safe and genteel documentary about the limits of humor (especially as they pertain to the Holocaust), but it opens with a subtly provocative sequence of events that's hard to shake.
March 03, 2017
[An] insightfully open-ended inquiry into the role of humor as it relates to unspeakable tragedy.
March 24, 2017
At a time when many of us look to comedy to keep us sane, the question is especially pertinent, although the answers here aren't especially penetrating.
May 09, 2017
When it floats away from its star talent, The Last Laugh becomes a viciously humane work, on a journey as vigorous as any contemplated by D.A. Pennebaker and his sort.