Film Review: Mr Morgan's Last Love
This film focuses on a bunch of characters who, considering their material wealth and social status, shouldn't be having so much trouble getting their lives together.
MR MORGAN’S LAST LOVE
Starring: Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
Category: IIA (English and French)
This film focuses on a bunch of characters who, considering their material wealth and social status, shouldn't be having so much trouble getting their lives together.
With a script adapted by German writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck from Françoise Dorner's novel, the middlebrow melodrama's focus is Matthew Morgan (Michael Caine), a retired philosophy professor with suicidal tendencies who can't come to terms with the death of his wife.
An American based in Paris, Morgan has given up on life, especially as his faraway son Miles (Justin Kirk) and daughter Karen (Gillian Anderson) are hostile towards him.
Mr Morgan is helped up after a fall by a young French woman, Pauline (Clémence Poésy), and a relationship develops that is vaguely romantic, mainly platonic and slightly paternal. The set-up suits both, until his offspring turn up to lay their mother to rest. The family doesn't approve of the new lady in his life, and misery ensues.
