well....you could use the very best or rather the most expensive ingredients and call it pate de foie gras. Sorry, I guess you would call it Last Love, but it would still be chopped liver, liverwurst or whatever. Before you start screaming that I simply have no taste consider what this movie would be had they not shot it in Paris, France but Paris, Texas and they some talented but lesser known actor than Michael Caine in the lead. As a result his last love would probably be an actress a bit less the lithesome waif than Clemence Poesy, but just as important such would not attract Gillian Anderson and Michelle Goddet for 10 or 12 minutes on the screen or a dozen or so others would not appear as everything from a rude passenger on a bus to a sardonic sandwich girl. Though they may be better known to French movie and TV viewers I truly believe that the presence of talents like Christelle Cornil with some 40 appearance credits here in IMDb A. would not be present doing 1 1/2 minutes as "Sandwich Girl #2" B. They make the whole immensely more palatable just as a wonderful estate bottled Beaujolais improves the luncheon ham sandwich "with the pickle on the side". Yes, blue wine with ham; I AM an American. The direction is not just a little abrupt; it sometimes almost loosens a tooth as we are at a restaurant having lun...no, getting into a boat and rowing... stop! getting into the car in a rainstorm while... a boyfriend? take Ms. Poesy back to.. Paris? St. Malo? who knows? they jump from one to another like they were Harlem and Central Park--a cab ride apart. In fact, they are 250 miles separate, but when a dead wife keeps popping up why can't a 30 year old child who feels oh, so deeply for Mr. Morgan fall intensely in love with his son after a half hour chat and a nap (completely chaste). Half hour? Who knows? She did, after all, leave the old man in St. Malo and take the Tesseract Taxi service to Paree... Oh, well, it was enjoyable enough. JUST enough to keep you from turning away. Now if I can only find some old fool to leave ME a little million dollar shack in France. I must go take a bus ride and find me one.
Review of Last Love
