His relationships are all too real
di Robert Abele The 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 ("The Briefcase," "Alone" and "Old Love") into one seriocomic rumination on the battle between ageless eroticism and aged thinking. The film's protagonist is a celebrated septuagenarian Jewish writer named Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) who has real and imagined dealings with a variety of emotionally bruised temptresses: the long-suffering girlfriend (Rhea Perlman) whose caretaking zeal masks a jealous fear of abandonment, a disillusioned former student (Barbara Hershey) who makes a dispiriting lecture trip suddenly exciting, and a Cuban maid (Elizabeth Peña) in a Miami-set dream of Max's whose forthrightness alarms him. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1394 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 luglio 2008
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