Love Comes Lately (2007)
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72% of critics liked it
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54% of users liked it
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A charming elderly Jewish writer who lives in a state of "permanent confusion" finds his vivid imagination becoming the bane of his existence in director Jan Schütte's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's richly textured short stories. Max Kohn (Otto… More A charming elderly Jewish writer who lives in a state of "permanent confusion" finds his vivid imagination becoming the bane of his existence in director Jan Schütte's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's richly textured short stories. Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an Australian émigré whose mind is constantly spinning. He's an accomplished author of short stories who lives in New York City and is so steeped in tradition that he still uses a typewriter. Despite the fact that confirmed bachelor Max has a virtual harem of female admirers, he spends the majority of his free time with worrisome kindred soul Reisele (Rhea Perlman). It's during a trip to speak in nearby Hanover that Max begins editing his latest story -- a mischievous tale of a Miami retiree who embarks on a series of misadventures. Of course, it doesn't take Max long to lose himself in his own creation, and before he knows it, he's mixed up in two feverish romances and an unsolved murder. Upon snapping back to reality, Max begins to feel as if his own written word has begun to manifest itself. A meeting with world-weary former student Rosalie (Barbara Hershey), with whom he shares a mutual attraction, follows, and later while heading to Springfield for yet another speaking engagement Max discovers that he has misplaced his prepared speech. In the aftermath of that and various other mix-ups, Max decides to start writing a new story based on his recent adventures and featuring a protagonist named Harry -- a thinly veiled stand-in for the author himself. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jan Schütte
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 25, 2008 Wide
- Studio
- Kino International
Critic Reviews
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Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
One of the best compliments to be paid a movie based on fiction is that it compels you to read other things by the author. Love Comes Lately is likely to elicit such a response.
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John Anderson, Washington Post
A film that might be called stubbornly magical.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fear of intimacy trumps fear of death in Love Comes Lately, filmmaker Jan Schütte's plaintively effective merging of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories.
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
The idea's not terrible, and no filmmaker has bothered with Singer for years, but this movie chooses to reduce the author's soulfulness to mirrored tales of lonely, randy seniors, all of whom Tausig plays. In one sense, it's a disservice.
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Love Comes Lately, a new English-language film from the German director Jan Schutte, has the good sense to begin with three very good short stories by the modern master Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Cast
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Otto Tausig
as Max Kohn
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Tovah Feldshuh
as Ethel
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Rhea Perlman
as Reisele
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Barbara Hershey
as Rosalie
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Elizabeth Peña
as Esperanza
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Caroline Aaron
as Rachel
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Brian Doyle-Murray
as Boss
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Olivia Thirlby
as Sylvia
- Elizabeth Marley
- Jason Hedges
- Lee Wilkof
- Michael Edward Brooks
