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- But despite its scattered insights and moments when you think to yourself, “Yes, that’s it,” “Last Love” has as many coy evasions and refuses to address its real subjects: decrepitude and depression. This dull, dawdling film, adapted from Françoise Dorner’s novel “La Douceur Assassine,” eventually succumbs to sentimentality.
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Nov 1, 2013 · A negative review of a 2013 film starring Michael Caine as a widower who befriends a young dance teacher. The reviewer criticizes the film's pace, tone, script and Caine's performance, and praises Gillian Anderson's brief appearance.
Last Love is a 2014 French drama starring Michael Caine as a suicidal widower and Clémence Poésy as a dance teacher. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, who criticized its mawkish and dawdling plot.
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- Michael Caine
- Sandra Nettelbeck
- Scope Pictures
Nov 1, 2013 · Sandra Nettelbeck’s “Last Love” stars Michael Caine as a cantankerous widower whose two children are concerned about his relationship with a young Parisian.
- Stephen Holden
- Sandra Nettelbeck
Nov 1, 2013 · Last Love: Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. With Michael Caine, Michelle Goddet, Jane Alexander, Serge Hollogne. He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sandra Nettelbeck
- 2013-11-01
User Reviews. This is such a poignant and well meant movie it's hard to not like it and its intentions. What it fails to do is "rise above." It is a heartfelt look at finding meaning at the end—and the beginning—of life in Paris, and yet it remains somewhat prosaic, missing a beat now and then.
Nov 1, 2013 · A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
Synopsis. He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
