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.

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.

[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.