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Mr. Morgan's Last Love
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. SynopsisThe 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
ProductionThe film was shot in Paris, Brittany, Brussels and Cologne in August 2011.[5] The book's French protagonist Monsieur Armand was changed to American Mr. Morgan.[6] Nettelbeck wrote the screenplay with Caine in mind.[7] ReceptionMr. 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] References
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