Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

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

Great Film overall

Best movie ever!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I wanted to like this more than I did but there are many faults...Michael Caine is always promising, and although he gave a good performance here, he is using an American accent, which stood out like a sore thumb! His performance is pretty good nonetheless, (it's Michael Caine) but he doesn't have the best script to begin with either..Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy should be a dream working together but they're relationship is not interesting enough to hold out the 2 hour mark... (and then the last half hour goes a bit askew as well). I never felt enough for these characters to invest in them or root for them and I think that is the films biggest failing..Although the movie had all the ingredients, I was checking the time quite a bit.. The movie had some charm but I was bored by its slow pacing...Seek it out if you cant get enough of Michael Caine or Clémence Poésy, but otherwise I wouldn't be in a hurry...

OK, first and foremost I think the best comparison is the Notebook on Steroids. Unlike the Notebook I like the real life characters and family struggles, but you have to drop the creepy old man philosophy. So many people are obsessed with old man, young girl "Daddy" complex analogies. What some of the reviews are missing is the true love Michael Caines character had for his wife, and how well he portrayed it. Hans Zimmer music was spot on and the transitions were amazing! I only gave it an 8 because of the ending. My personal opinion is they did such a good job building the characters that the ending fell a little flat. Other than that I highly recommend this movie. You will love it if you have an open mind, and leave your personal issues and opinions behind.

Matthew Morgan (Michael Caine) is a retired Princeton professor of philosophy who lives in Paris and speaks no French. His wife (Jane Alexander) is the one who speaks french and then she dies. His life for three years have been one of passing the time. He meets Pauline Laubie (Clémence Poésy) on the bus. She is an extremely helpful dance instructor. They become best friends. He is hospitalized after taking too many sleeping pills or too little depending on the view point. His two kids Miles Morgan (Justin Kirk) and Karen Morgan (Gillian Anderson) visit. They are certain that Pauline is a gold digger.There is a nice easy manner about Clémence Poésy. She keeps this movie slightly interesting despite it being such a slow crawl. The relationship between Michael Caine and her is somewhat interesting. It seems the movie needed to stay with them. For about an hour and a half, the movie works reasonably well. Then the ending goes down the wrong path. It tries to be a movie about a father and son which it doesn't really introduce until the second half of the movie. It would be so much better to have the movie stay solely with Caine and Poésy.

With odd characters! At two hours long this story becomes a real challenge to keep the viewers attention and not to get a tired butt.The emotional 'distresses' the three lead characters are burdened with are not explained in depth enough -- at least not for me. The story is a bit shallow for the state of mind we find in each character and the daughter being the most interesting is written out of the plot way too quickly. And the Pauline character is just not believable to the point of her involvement with father and son.I found the story choppy and Michael Caine seemed a bit labored in creating the suicidal and lonely Matthew.