Love Comes Lately

Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), the aging Lothario of “Love Comes Lately,” is very much like the movie itself: doddering and milquetoasty, but ultimately disarming. Blending three short stories by the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, the filmmaker Jan Schütte may well have made a minor classic for the retired-Jews-of-Miami set. In this admirably grown-up tale, with its keen sympathy for autumnal sentiments, [...] Vai alla recensione »

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 [...] Vai alla recensione »