‘The Loneliest Man in Town’ Review: An Aging Austrian Musician Plays Himself Playing the Blues in a Quietly Moving Portrait

Variety · 2026-02-19
‘The Loneliest Man in Town’ Review: An Aging Austrian Musician Plays Himself Playing the Blues in a Quietly Moving Portrait

A work of gently enveloping docufiction, “The Loneliest Man in Town” sees long-time DIY creative pair Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel following and dramatizing the twilight years of their friend, the Austrian blues artist Al Cook. The last holdout in his worn-down apartment building — where he was bor