"Countess Sofya, wife and muse to her husband Leo Tolstoy, suspects that his faithful disciple tricked him into signing a will leaving all his work and property to a Russian company."Movie type: Drama - This is a serious, fact-based period drama about the end of Russian author Leo Tolstoy's life. Fans of stars Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, and James McAvoy should be pleased with the meaty material they get to play here.
Director: Michael Hoffman
Writer: Jay Parini
Script: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Helen Mirren (Szofja Tolsztoj), Christopher Plummer (Lev Tolsztoj), Paul Giamatti (Vlagyimir Csertkov)
Length: 1 hr. 52 min.
Reviews:
Jonathan F. Richards - Top Critic: „Some critics have derided the central performances as scenery-chewing excess, but these Tolstoys are characters who demand histrionics, and Mirren and Plummer are magnificent in delivering on those demands.”
Tom Long - Detroit News - Top Critic: „Director and writer Michael Hoffman, adapting Jay Parini's novel, lets the history play out, and this little-known chapter plays out nicely indeed.”
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel - Top Critic: „The Last Station is a moving, fictionalized account of a piece of real Russian history, a tour de force for an actor who's in his prime in his 70s and 80s, and a real return to form for a director most at home in period pieces.”
Source: cinemareview.com
09.02.2012