Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013 German film
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Mr. Morgan's Last Love (also known as Last Love) is a 2013 film based on Françoise Dorner's French novel La Douceur Assassine. It is written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck and stars Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy.
by Françoise Dorner
Frank Kaminski
Philipp Kreuzer
Ulrich Stiehm
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| Directed by | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| Written by | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| Based on | La Douceur Assassine by Françoise Dorner |
| Produced by | Astrid Kahmke Frank Kaminski Philipp Kreuzer Ulrich Stiehm |
| Starring | Michael Caine Clémence Poésy Justin Kirk Jane Alexander Michèle Goddet Anne Alvaro Gillian Anderson |
| Cinematography | Michael Bertl |
| Edited by | Christoph Strothjohann |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer[1] |
Production companies | Senator Film Sidney Kimmel Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Senator Film (Germany) A-Film Benelux MSD (Belgium) Image Entertainment (US) |
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Running time | 116 minutes[2] |
| Countries | Germany Belgium United States France |
| Languages | English French |
| Box office | $1,927,963[3] |
Synopsis
The film centres around a retired, widowed professor (Caine) living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a young French woman (Poésy). That's the central structure for a sensitive story about changing relationships for this professor and his son, and life's meaning.[4]
Cast
- Michael Caine as Matthew Morgan
- Clémence Poésy as Pauline Laubie
- Justin Kirk as Miles Morgan
- Jane Alexander as Joan Morgan
- Gillian Anderson as Karen Morgan
- Richard Hope as Philatelist
- Anne Alvaro as Colette Léry
- Louis-Julien Petit as Sleeping Student on Bus
Production
Reception
Mr. Morgan's Last Love received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% rating, based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 4.67/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Last Love benefits from a typically strong Michael Caine performance, but it's ultimately too mawkish and dawdling to make much impact."[8] Metacritic gives the film a score of 36 out of 100, sampled from thirteen reviews.[9]
Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, called the film a "coy and unendurable tale of a tastefully sexless May-to-December romance".[10] "This dull, dawdling film, adapted from Françoise Dorner’s novel “La Douceur Assassine,” eventually succumbs to sentimentality," wrote Stephen Holden in the NYT.[11]
