''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 Sandra Nettelbeck (born 4 April 1966) is a German film director and screenwriter, best known for her film '' Mostly Martha'' (2001). Early life Sandra Nettelbeck was born 4 April 1966 in Hamburg, West Germany to Uwe Nettelbeck, a German record p ...

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.

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 Anne Alvaro (born 29 October 1951) is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through to 2012. She is probably best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic '' Danton''. She won one César Award for Best Actress in a Su ...

as Colette Léry * Louis-Julien Petit as Sleeping Student on Bus

Production

The film was shot in Paris, Brittany, Brussels and Cologne in August 2011. The book's French protagonist Monsieur Armand was changed to American Mr. Morgan. Nettelbeck wrote the screenplay with Caine in mind.

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." Metacritic gives the film a score of 36 out of 100, sampled from thirteen reviews. Peter Bradshaw, writing in ''The Guardian,'' called the film a "coy and unendurable tale of a tastefully sexless May-to-December romance". "This dull, dawdling film, adapted from Françoise Dorner’s novel “La Douceur Assassine,” eventually succumbs to sentimentality," wrote Stephen Holden in the NYT. New York Times. "The Kids Are Not Happy About Dad’s New Friend" by Stephen Holden. October 31, 2013.
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