VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

HotToastyRag It's tough to decide whether or not to recommend watching Last Love. If you're a Michael Caine fan, you'll probably want to watch him do some incredible acting, but you won't want to watch him in such a sad story. If you happen to like sad movies, you might want to give it a try. But, as much as I love Michael Caine, I could have skipped watching this movie. It was just too depressing.The beginning of the film falls under the "what does it take" category of the Academy Awards. Michael Caine is sitting at his wife's deathbed, and after she's passed away, outsiders come in to try and remove him from the room. He fights them, wanting to stay with his companion as long as possible. I don't think it's possible to watch this scene without bursting into tears, and I'm sure Michael was just as baffled as I was that he wasn't nominated for an Oscar that year. Believe it or not, the rest of the film isn't really any more uplifting. Jane Alexander plays Michael's late wife, and she visits him several times throughout the film, talking to him and giving him advice on his attempt to start a new chapter. He meets a French dance teacher, Clemence Poesy, and strikes up a friendship. The audience is supposed to realize that his unrequited crush is doomed to remain unrequited, because unless Michelle has grandfather-issues, she won't look at him as a romantic prospect. I still think of Michael Caine as how he looked decades ago, so I didn't understand why it was an unrequited crush in the first place.In any case, this is an incredibly depressing film about how a man tries to continue living even though he's lost his life companion. Use your own judgement to see if you're able to sit through it.Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to depressing and adult content, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

mheifets-60538 nothing is simple or straightforward here.Yet, nothing like this happens in real life either. This is not a fairy tale, but it is life (or end of it) as one would like to imagine it.. No cookie cutter statements apply here and i disagree with others who want to pigeon hole this or that turn of events in the film. first of all its Pauline who seeks Matthew out, it appears that she has instant liking to him and IMAGINES finding family. It takes time Mathhew to warm up to her, then its his turn to imagining.. Overall Pauline can be viewed as imagination mirror to all others, she is universal reflection of others (some of what we see is reminiscent of Woody Allen characters) Michael Caine is a perfect fit, so are all the actors. This film feels more theatrical than cinematic in set up, but yet could not be set adequately on the stage. Inconsistencies: St Malo is hours!! away from Paris; Michael Caine just does not project like an American, accent or not. A simple fix would have been to make him British who lived a long time in US before moving to Paris; agree with comments about her accent - too "British", for Michael Caine (who is supposed to be an American!) to correct her English; other observations: Sandwich girls are hilarious - its what every non french speaker in France and especially in Paris feels like about locals talking about them Not a single computer, laptop or iPad in the whole film whoa!! negligible cell phone use also..SPOILER ALERT:kissing scene: something weird was going on, how did Matthew end up there and camera angles were confusingthe end -- i actually felt that he did not commit suicide, it felt like some time had passed between him saying he figured it out (dying natural death soon after) and the final scene on the bench between Pauline and Miles.overall 10 out of 10 cant stop thinking about this

trimblair Rented this one for Mom and proud to have lasted to the end. What a depressing nap of a film. You can tell it is adopted from a European book because it is SLOW and it is SAD. Caine is at the end of his life as he meets Poesy, a beautiful dancer who is full of life. His family is a weight on his neck. She helps him deal with that weight before his time runs out. His kids come to visit when his health starts to fail and they are monsters. Just awful, little people. They are so caught up in their twisted, broken little lives and their dependencies, they don't have time for their father except to make sure they are in his will. Sad, tired little movie that saps your strength and glow. SKIP THIS

stills-6 What starts as a very intelligent, well-acted movie about the nature of relationships and the need for connection, turns dramatically and disappointingly into a sentimental mushpile of a soap opera, and then gets worse. Extremely well-acted up to a point, the characters are fleshed out as real people and you can for the most part understand and empathize with them. Michael Caine's weird attempt at an American accent doesn't quite undermine his characterization of the professor, but it is distracting and sounds too false. He did a pretty OK American accent in Cider House Rules, but nowhere else.I was very impressed by most of this movie, including the pretty scenery, and the nicely conceived and rounded characters. About 2/3 of the way through however, it goes off the rails. Another reviewer described this movie as having sincerity, and I would agree with that up to a point. There are few false notes in the script, but when they happen they are real clunkers that drag the movie down like an anchor. This may be because the rest of the movie is so sincere and real that the false notes feel just that more false, but I don't think that's quite it.There is a very soap opera moment at around the 3/4 point which not only feels contrived, but which pulls the story in a really unsatisfying direction. While it's headed in this disastrous direction it's actually succeeding in giving the characters life in a meaningful and sincere way, but then another ridiculous plot device drives it further into the ground. And then another. And another.And the ending is just stupid. Unwatchably preposterously stupid. Given what we know these characters have gone through, and how much they've grown as human beings, it's outside the realm of believability and is antithetical to the story, erasing the purpose of the movie and voiding its intelligence with a single swipe. Worse, the movie wants you to view the ending as having the sort of lofty nobility that would cause you to leap out of your seat and applaud, which I find personally disgusting. Would that I had leaped out of my seat earlier and left. If that particular ending was in the original source material, then so much the worse for the source material because as portrayed it didn't do the movie any favors.