Mr. Morgan's Last Love
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| Directed by | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| Produced by | Astrid Kahmke Frank Kaminski Philipp Kreuzer Ulrich Stiehm |
| Screenplay by | Sandra Nettelbeck |
| Based on |
La Douceur Assassine by Françoise Dorner |
| Starring |
Michael Caine Clémence Poésy Justin Kirk Jane Alexander Gillian Anderson |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Michael Bertl |
| Edited by | Christoph Strothjohann |
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Senator Film
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Senator Film (Germany) A-Film Benelux MSD (Belgium) Image Entertainment (US) |
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116 minutes |
| Country | Germany Belgium United States France |
| Language | English French |
| Box office | $1,927,963 |
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (also known as Last Love) is an 2013 film based on Françoise Dorner's French novel La Douceur Assassine. It is written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck and stars Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy.
The film centres around a retired, widowed professor (Caine) living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a young French woman (Poésy). That's the central structure for a sensitive story about changing relationships for this professor and his son, and life's meaning.
The film was shot in Paris, Brittany, Brussels and Cologne in August 2011.
The book's French protagonist Monsieur Armand was changed to American Mr. Morgan. Nettelbeck wrote the screenplay with Caine in mind.
Mr. Morgan's Last Love received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 35% rating, based on twenty reviews, with an average score of 4.9/10.Metacritic gives the film a score of 37 out of 100, sampled from twelve reviews.
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