Mr. Morgan's last love

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Movie
German title Mr. Morgan's last love
Original title Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Country of production Germany , Belgium , France , USA
original language English , French
Publishing year 2013
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Sandra Nettelbeck
script Sandra Nettelbeck,
Françoise Dorner
production Astrid Kahmke,
Frank Kaminski
music Hans Zimmer
camera Michael Bertl
cut Christoph Strothjohann
occupation

Mr. Morgan's Last Love is a film drama by director Sandra Nettelbeck from the year 2013 , which on the French novel La Douceur Assassin by Françoise Dorner based. The film opened in Germany on August 22, 2013.

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Matthew Morgan, a former professor of philosophy at Princeton University , lost his wife Joan three years ago and has since lived a lonely life in Paris in the large apartment he shared with Joan. One day the American meets a young, blonde woman named Pauline on the bus, who talks to him, who does not speak French, and offers him to accompany him home, not least because of his age and forlornness. Matthew visits Pauline in the dance school where she works as a teacher. After initial hesitation, he took part in the dance lessons, learned Cha Cha Cha and Line Dance and visibly revived , even getting his old car, a Peugeot 504 , running again. The unlikely couple date a few times; they go on excursions, row on a lake or go out to eat. Still, Matthew can't get over the loss of his wife and tries to kill himself with an overdose of pills , but fails. Matthew's adult children Miles and Karen are therefore traveling from the USA. In the hospital they meet Pauline, in whom they see their future stepmother . Miles is particularly hostile towards Pauline, but Pauline firmly rejects his allegations that she is targeting his father's fortune.

Matthew and Pauline go to the family home in Saint-Malo , which Joan loved very much. Matthew, overwhelmed by the resemblance between his wife and Pauline, wants to give it to his young friend, but she does not want to accept it. Matthew talks to Pauline about his wife's death. She was suffering from cancer and Matthew, at her urging, euthanized her, but had to promise not to tell Miles and Karen. Pauline recognizes this secret as one of the reasons for the tension between Miles and his father. Back in Paris, she talks to Miles about his mother's death. Through this nocturnal conversation, both come closer. Matthew happens to witness Pauline and Miles kiss passionately in the hotel hallway.

When Matthew gets together alone with Miles, he tells his son that he should never hurt Pauline. Then there is a clarifying conversation between father and son about the death of Joan and the failure of Miles' marriage, which he has so far kept from his father.

Matthew sees Pauline in good hands and lets her know via Miles that he has solved all the riddles he previously called Pauline as a prerequisite for dying. He wants to follow his wife and puts an end to his life. Pauline misses him, but also looks forward to a future with Miles and his young son.

production

The film was shot in Brussels , Cologne and Paris .

Reviews

The Tagesspiegel writes in its film review of August 21, 2013 that the film tries to "avoid clichés and do so successfully over long periods". The director manages to "provide the subject with new aspects and to stage it touchingly, but not sentimentally".

In the review of the film in Stern on August 22, 2013, it says: “The delicate play of Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy and the other actors, the clever dialogues by Sandra Nettelbeck that never slide into sentimentalism and the cameraman's images, which are often reminiscent of impressionistic paintings Michael Bertl make the bittersweet tragic comedy an event for everyone who likes it soulful, but not emotional. "

In its review of the film on August 22, 2013, the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that Michael Caine's role as Mr. Morgan was “tailor-made”. The director Sandra Nettelbeck shows in the film "as a narrator a lot of sensitivity". You manage "that Mr. Morgan's last big flirtation often seems touching, but never suggestive".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Mr. Morgan's Last Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 769 K).
  2. ↑ Age identification for Mr. Morgan's last love . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The old man and the girl. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 21, 2013, accessed on September 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Emotional, but not sentimental. In: Stern , August 22, 2013, accessed September 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Without love everything is nothing. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2013, accessed on September 30, 2013.