The Last Cruise
Film poster
Directed byHannah Olson
Produced by
  • Hannah Olson
  • Shane Boris
  • Joe Beshenkovsky
  • James A Smith.
CinematographyLuisa Conlon
Edited byJoe Beshenkovsky
Music byDaniel Lopatin
Production
companies
Distributed byHBO
Release dates
  • March 16, 2021 (2021-03-16) (SXSW)
  • March 30, 2021 (2021-03-30) (United States)
Running time
40 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Last Cruise is a 2021 documentary film directed by Hannah Olson. It is about the COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess.[1][2] It premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival[3] and was released on March 30, 2021 by HBO.

Synopsis

The Last Cruise documents the experiences of people on board the now-infamous Diamond Princess cruise ship, where an uncontained COVID-19 outbreak at the start of the pandemic became a global spectacle and a faraway symbol of the new virus and its potential to upend any sense of normalcy.

The ship set sail from Yokohama, Japan on January 20, 2020. By February 26, the Diamond Princess accounted for more than half of all the documented COVID-19 cases outside of China with over 700 infected people aboard. Using intimate footage recorded by its passengers and crew, The Last Cruise is a first-person account of the nightmare that transpired aboard the ill-fated cruise. With little information available about the new virus and limited access to resources, the ship’s cases soared. Passengers were quarantined in their staterooms for weeks and would ultimately account for the first citizens to test positive for COVID-19 in several countries around the world. Meanwhile, the crew tended to the passengers, delivered room service meals and slept and dined in cramped, shared quarters. They’d become what would later be termed “essential workers.”

References

  1. ↑ Kelleher, Suzanne Rowan. "HBO's 'The Last Cruise' Charts How The U.S. Missed The Boat On Covid". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  2. ↑ "HBO's "Last Cruise" doc of that fateful quarantined cruise ship is a harrowing metaphor for inequity". 30 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "SXSW Review: The Last Cruise is a Horrifying, Personal Look Inside the Early Days of COVID-19". 20 March 2021.


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