''Mr. Morgan's Last Love'' (also known as ''Last Love'') is a 2013 film based on

Françoise Dorner Françoise Dorner (born 17 June 1949, Paris) is a French actress, screenwriter, author of plays and novels. Biography Actress Dorner appeared for the first time in the cinema thanks to Éric Le Hung who entrusted her in 1975 one of the main rol ...

'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 ...

and stars

Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film ico ...

and

Clémence Poésy Clémence Guichard (born 30 October 1982), known professionally as Clémence Poésy (), is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 19 ...

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

as Matthew Morgan *

as Pauline Laubie *

Justin Kirk Justin Kirk (born May 28, 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Prior Walter in Mike Nichols's screen adaptation of ''Angels in America'', for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting A ...

as Miles Morgan *

Jane Alexander Jane Alexander (née Quigley; born October 28, 1939) is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Academy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. From 1993 to 19 ...

as Joan Morgan *

Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson ( ; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series ''The X-Files'', ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film '' The House of Mirt ...

as Karen Morgan * Richard Hope as Philatelist * Anne Alvaro as Colette Léry * Louis-Julien Petit as Sleeping Student on Bus

Production

The film was shot in Paris,

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

, Brussels and

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

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

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, 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."

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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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