Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySandra Nettelbeck
Written bySandra Nettelbeck
Based onLa Douceur Assassine
by Françoise Dorner
Produced byAstrid Kahmke
Frank Kaminski
Philipp Kreuzer
Ulrich Stiehm
StarringMichael Caine
Clémence Poésy
Justin Kirk
Jane Alexander
Michèle Goddet
Anne Alvaro
Gillian Anderson
CinematographyMichael Bertl
Edited byChristoph Strothjohann
Music byHans Zimmer[1]
Production
companies
Distributed bySenator Film (Germany)
A-Film Benelux MSD (Belgium)
Image Entertainment (US)
Release dates
  • 29 June 2013 (2013-06-29) (Munich)
  • 1 November 2013 (2013-11-01) (US)
Running time
116 minutes[2]
CountriesGermany
Belgium
United States
France
LanguagesEnglish
French
Box office$1,927,963[3]

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.

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

Production

The 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]

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]

References

  1. ↑ "'Mr. Morgan's Last Love' to Feature Music by Hans Zimmer". FilmMusicReporter.com.
  2. ↑ "MR MORGAN'S LAST LOVE (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Mr. Morgan's Last Love". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Chitwood, Adam (14 November 2011). "Sidney Kimmel Entertainment to Co-Finance Mr. Morgan's Last Love Starring Michael Caine". Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  5. ↑ White, James (10 February 2011). "Michael Caine Has Mr Morgan's Last Love". Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Meza, Ed. "Caine ties knot on 'Last Love'". Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  7. ↑ Lefflet, Rebecca (3 January 2012). "Michael Caine Reveals 'Dark Knight Rises' and 'Mr. Morgan's Last Love' Contrasts From the Paris Set of New Film". Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "Last Love (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Last Love". Metacritic. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  10. ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (3 July 2014). "Mr Morgan's Last Love – a sexless American in Paris". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  11. ↑ New York Times. "The Kids Are Not Happy About Dad’s New Friend" by Stephen Holden. October 31, 2013.
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