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The Last Tree (2019)

| Drama | 27 September 2019 (UK)
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After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.

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Shola Amoo

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Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Sam Adewunmi | See full cast & crew »
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Credited cast:
Nicholas Pinnock ... Mr. Williams
Denise Black ... Mary
Sam Adewunmi Sam Adewunmi ... Femi
Gbemisola Ikumelo ... Yinka
Demmy Ladipo ... Mace
Yazzmin Newell ... Dionne
Tai Golding Tai Golding ... Younger Femi
John Akanmu ... Kash (credit only)
Shaqai White ... Young Dean
Jayden Jean-Paul-Denis Jayden Jean-Paul-Denis ... Tayo
Layo-Christina Akinlude ... Bimpe
Rasaq Kukoyi ... Dean
Ibrahim Jammal Ibrahim Jammal ... Ade
Ameen Mustapha Ameen Mustapha ... Ola
Ruthxjiah Bellenea Ruthxjiah Bellenea ... Tope
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Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.

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The Last Tree - becoming a product of your environment
30 September 2019 | by brankovranjkovic – See all my reviews

Powerful coming of age drama about the early life of a Nigerian immigrant who returns to his birth mother after a childhood with a caring foster mother.

Act1. At the beginning of the film 'Femi' is a young black child to a very caring white foster mother, he seems happy and happy at school, his friends are mostly white as well. He learns that his birth mother is visiting, but we soon discover that her intension is to return to London with him.

We see that his new home is in a squalid tower block and he's struggling to fit into the environment and his new school. His 'new' mother is stern and has very little time for him. Femi resents the move, and the atmosphere between them is continuously tense.

Act2. The child is now a much older teenager, most of the film focuses on this part of his life. He's in his final year and his exams are fast approaching. He fits into the environment, he has a circle of mainly undesirable friends, and has caught the attention of the local king-pin drug dealer, who begins to groom him into his operation. Femi is struggling with what appears to be an unfamiliar black culture.

Act3. Femi visits Nigeria with his mother, his father is a wealthy pastor. He has several servants, his home is a palace. We see that he has a new family. So there is no reconciliation or reunion. Unfortunately Femi is emotionally rejected for a second time.

This has been compared with 'Moonlight', but I can't see why. The only similarity is that the plot is split into 3 acts, but that is where the likeness ends. The Last Tree is a much grittier drama with some very strong emotional performances.

Highly recommended.
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