Kodachrome is a Netflix Original film released in April 2018 and one that I wished I’d let into my life on release. Initially it will feel rather generic and the McGuffin that gets the ball rolling feels so unbelievable that it makes perfect sense when you find out it’s true!

In 2010, A. G. Sulzberger wrote an article for The New York Times about Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas. A small family business that was the last to close the doors on the processing of Kodachrome film. Writer Jonathan Tropper has taken the core of that true story and wrapped a fictional account of an estranged father and son making one last road trip to get some film developed.

Matt (Jason Sudeikis) is a down on his luck music agent who is invited to go on a road trip with his famous photographer father Ben (Ed Harris), whom he hasn’t seen for a decade. Enticed with a meeting that might get his career back on track he sets out on the journey with his father’s nurse Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen).

The journey is filled with montages, set to a great wistful soundtrack and is full of poignant stares and silences as the road side views go by. Ed Harris’ face manages to convey years of pain and a hidden away sadness in his brash asshole of a dad and there is good chemistry and performances between the three leads. Olsen is typically impressive and Sudeikis puts in another stirring dramatic performance after Colossal. But Harris is different class, making his curmudgeonly dying old man a thing of beauty as he oozes character.

There are some nostalgically romantic images of the father and sons love of analogue technology dotted throughout as we see Ben caring for his cameras and Matt reminiscing with his vinyl on a return to the family home.

Filmed on Kodak 35mm film, this is an ode to a dying era wrapped in a story of fathers and sons and whilst it might have moments that feel generic it’s delivery is perfect and it’s final moments, despite being telegraphed deliver an emotional heft that left me moved to tears.