Though there are some small, beautiful moments in Nettelbeck’s drama, Last Love as a whole feels like it’s been dosed with Xanax.
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Germany, Belgium, United States · 2013
1h 56m
Director Sandra Nettelbeck
Starring Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Gillian Anderson, Justin Kirk
Genre Comedy, Drama
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In this bittersweet tale about navigating grief and finding companionship in unexpected places, a retired, suicidal widower living in Paris develops a powerful friendship with a bright, young French woman. As the pair embark on everyday adventures through the city, they rediscover what it means to love life.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
The main problem of Mr. Morgan’s Last Love is a structural one, as it is really two films in one.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Not much happens in Sandra Nettelbeck’s intimate family drama, but its well-drawn connections between lonely souls make an impact nonetheless.
Los Angeles Times by Inkoo Kang
This somber work about the worthiness of living has little life in it.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
Unfortunately, Nettelbeck also strives to make Last Love a genuinely complex drama rooted in recognizable human behavior, and fails utterly in that effort.
Scene after scene is defined by blunt exposition and gooey maxims, not to mention cornball visual metaphors.
It’s a real pleasure to share some quality time with Mr. Caine as an old man wise enough to know there’s rarely any such thing as a second time around but brave enough to take a chance anyway. But the writing and direction by Sandra Nettelbeck barely support his forceful presence.
Last Love sticks to a flaccid middle ground lacking any real drama or pathos.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
This dull, dawdling film, adapted from Françoise Dorner’s novel “La Douceur Assassine,” eventually succumbs to sentimentality.
Last Love hardly presents itself as a challenging picture, tugging as it does at the heartstrings with gentle persistence, but at its best moments, it is a sweetly considered one.
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