Last Love is more somnambulistic than taking a bottle of sleeping pills, a course of action that Paris resident Matthew (Michael Caine) repeatedly resorts to in order to escape his grief over the death of wife Joan (Jane Alexander). Matthew speaks to Joan's ghost but finds a new, live partner in young Pauline (Clémence Poésy) — she reminds him of Joan, and he reminds her of her dead father. If their May-December relationship doesn't fully subsume the material in quasi-incestuous affection, the amour she eventually feels for Matthew's son, Miles (Justin Kirk) — a carbon copy of his estranged dad — does, albeit not enough to compensate for the film's torpor. Mawkishly adapted from Françoise Dorner's novel by Sandra Nettelbec...
- 10/30/2013
- Village Voice
Global Screen inks deal with Arrow for Michael Caine romance-drama.
Arrow Film Distributors has picked up all UK and Ireland rights to Sandra Nettelback’s Locarno romance-drama, Mr Morgan’s Last Love, from Global Screen.
Michael Caine stars alongside Clemence Poesy, Gillian Anderson, Justin Kirk, Jane Alexander and Richard Hope in the story that charts the connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
Arrow plans an early 2014 release in the UK.
Review: Mr Morgan’s Last LoveON Set Report
The German-Belgian co-production, written and directed by Nettelbeck and based on the French novel La Douceur Assassine by Françoise Dorner, is accompanied by a Hans Zimmer score.
“Arrow are delighted to bring a film with such warm hearted performances to the both the UK and Irish audiences and to continue our great relationship with all the team at Global Screen”, said Tom Stewart, head of acquisitions at Arrow.
Arrow Film Distributors has picked up all UK and Ireland rights to Sandra Nettelback’s Locarno romance-drama, Mr Morgan’s Last Love, from Global Screen.
Michael Caine stars alongside Clemence Poesy, Gillian Anderson, Justin Kirk, Jane Alexander and Richard Hope in the story that charts the connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
Arrow plans an early 2014 release in the UK.
Review: Mr Morgan’s Last LoveON Set Report
The German-Belgian co-production, written and directed by Nettelbeck and based on the French novel La Douceur Assassine by Françoise Dorner, is accompanied by a Hans Zimmer score.
“Arrow are delighted to bring a film with such warm hearted performances to the both the UK and Irish audiences and to continue our great relationship with all the team at Global Screen”, said Tom Stewart, head of acquisitions at Arrow.
- 9/12/2013
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winner Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy star in this lovely trailer for director Sandra Nettelbeck’s charming film Mr. Morgan’S Last Love – the bittersweet tale of a lonely American widower in Paris who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and vibrant young woman. They both spend a short but precious time together – a time that touches their hearts and changes their lives.
The film had it’s world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June and showed at the Munich International Film Festival in July where Caine received the lifetime achievement CineMerit Award.
The romantic drama has been picked up by Image Entertainment in the U.S.
From the day Pauline lends him a helping hand on the bus, the stubborn, weary Matthew Morgan stumbles back to happiness. Swept off his old feet by the young woman’s disarming vitality and unwavering optimism,...
The film had it’s world premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June and showed at the Munich International Film Festival in July where Caine received the lifetime achievement CineMerit Award.
The romantic drama has been picked up by Image Entertainment in the U.S.
From the day Pauline lends him a helping hand on the bus, the stubborn, weary Matthew Morgan stumbles back to happiness. Swept off his old feet by the young woman’s disarming vitality and unwavering optimism,...
- 7/31/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment will co-finance and co-produce German writer/director Sandra Nettlebeck's comedic melodrama “Mr. Morgan’s Last Love” reports Reuters.
Based on Françoise Dorner's novel “La Douceur Assassine” and set in Paris, the film follows on a retired and lonely American widower (Michael Caine) whose chance encounter with a free-spirited, beautiful young French woman brightens his life.
Clémence Poésy ("127 Hours"), Justin Kirk ("Weeds" ), Jane Alexander ("All the President's Men"), Anne Alvaro ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") and Gillian Anderson ("The X-Files") also star.
Nettlebeck (“Mostly Martha") wrote the screenplay and shooting kicked off in Paris this week with Bavaria Pictures, Kaminski Stiehm Film and Senator Film producing.
Based on Françoise Dorner's novel “La Douceur Assassine” and set in Paris, the film follows on a retired and lonely American widower (Michael Caine) whose chance encounter with a free-spirited, beautiful young French woman brightens his life.
Clémence Poésy ("127 Hours"), Justin Kirk ("Weeds" ), Jane Alexander ("All the President's Men"), Anne Alvaro ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") and Gillian Anderson ("The X-Files") also star.
Nettlebeck (“Mostly Martha") wrote the screenplay and shooting kicked off in Paris this week with Bavaria Pictures, Kaminski Stiehm Film and Senator Film producing.
- 11/15/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"Mr. Morgan’s Last Love,” starring Oscar-friendly Michael Caine and Jane Alexander, started filming in Paris this week. The bittersweet story of a retired and lonely American widower (Caine) who encounters vibrant and naive free spirit Clemence Poesy ("127 Hours, In Bruges"), the movie is adapted by director Sandra Nettlebeck ("Helen, No Reservations") from the novel “La Douceur Assassine” by Françoise Dorner.
- 11/14/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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