‘Last Flight Home’ Review: A Family Says Their Goodbyes in Intimate End-of-Life Doc
variety.comLisa Kennedy In Jan. 2021, Eli Timoner, 92, decided to make use of California’s End of Life Option law. His daughter, the award-winning documentary director Ondi Timoner (“We Live in Public”) did not start out to make a feature about Eli’s and her family’s journey to the end, but she has. “Last Flight Home,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is many things, all of them compelling.
It is a tribute, a grappling with mortality, an exercise in self-surveillance, a messy home movie, a brief account of aviation history and a lesson in letting go and grief.In 1982, Eli Timoner had been flying high.
His wife, Elissa and their kids — Rachel, Ondi and David — were thriving. Air Florida, the regional carrier he’d co-founded and was president of had grown considerably.
In February of that year, he appeared on “Good Morning America” with host David Hartman asking him questions about his ambitions for the company.
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