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CINEMA NOUVEAU ANNOUNCES THE EXCLUSIVE RELEASE OF MR MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, STARRING MICHAEL CAINE

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French; she's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?


A chance encounter on a bus in a suburb of Paris leads to the start of an interesting relationship between two teachers – one is a retired American professor of philosophy, while the other teaches the cha-cha at a small dance school in the city.

Adapted from Françoise Dorner's novel La Douceur Assassine and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck, Mr Morgan’s Last Love stars Michael Caine as Matthew Morgan, recently widowed, and living out his last years in the beautiful city of Paris. His young and engaging friend, Pauline (Clémence Poésy), encourages him to venture out of the gloom of his Paris apartment and into her dance studio.

This comedy drama focuses on the former philosophy professor who had moved to the ‘City of Lights’ with his wife, Joan (Jane Alexander), to live out their golden years together. However, three years after her death, Matthew still catches glimpses of her in all the old familiar places they had loved visiting together – although it is he who seems to be the one who has taken to walking around Paris like a ghost of his former self.

However, all this changes when he meets Pauline. Her hair reminds him of his late wife's, he says; his beard reminds her of her late father's. She is also a solitary person but longs for the connection of family. She believes she's found that in Matthew. Soon enough, he's dancing the cha-cha-cha in her class and literally letting some light into his musty apartment, as he finds himself falling for this beautiful, but much younger woman. But, do these two odd characters really have anything in common?

Pauline is at his bedside, attending to him during a hospitalisation, when his two adult children arrive from the USA to check on their father. Matthew’s son, Miles (Justin Kirk), and his daughter, Karen (Gillian Anderson), are not sure what to make of this strange relationship. They are convinced Pauline is a gold digger and only after one thing. Pauline, on the other hand, is confounded by the tangible distance between father and children. When Karen heads home to deal with her own family’s problems, Miles remains in Paris, but is there any way that Pauline can fit in to the strained family dynamics?

Mr Morgan’s Last Love releases exclusively at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg (Rosebank Mall), Pretoria (Brooklyn Mall), Durban (Gateway) and Cape Town (V&A Waterfront), on Friday, 12 September.

View the official trailer of Mr Morgan’s Last Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf2zAxSC5x4
Hi-res images are available on: www.skpictures.co.za

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