Mr. Morgan's Last Love (also known as Last Love) is a 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.^[4]

• Michael Caine as Matthew Morgan
• Clémence Poésy as Pauline Laubie
• Justin Kirk as Miles Morgan
• Jane Alexander as Joan Morgan
• Gillian Anderson as Karen Morgan
• Richard Hope as Philatelist
• Anne Alvaro as Colette Léry
• Louis-Julien Petit as Sleeping Student on Bus

The film was shot in Paris, Brittany, Brussels and Cologne in August 2011.^[5]

The book's French protagonist Monsieur Armand was changed to American Mr. Morgan.^[6] Nettelbeck wrote the screenplay with Caine in mind.^[7]

Mr. Morgan's Last Love received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% rating, based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 4.67/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Last Love benefits from a typically strong Michael Caine performance, but it's ultimately too mawkish and dawdling to make much impact."^[8] Metacritic gives the film a score of 36 out of 100, sampled from thirteen reviews.^[9]

Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, called the film a "coy and unendurable tale of a tastefully sexless May-to-December romance".^[10] "This dull, dawdling film, adapted from Françoise Dorner’s novel “La Douceur Assassine,” eventually succumbs to sentimentality," wrote Stephen Holden in the NYT. ^[11]