Love Comes Lately

Based on three short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yentl), Love Comes Lately braids fiction, fantasy, and autobiography into a bittersweet comedy-drama pitting the self-renewing power of male ego and libido against the inevitable physical decline of age. Though anchored in a long-time relationship with Reisel (Cheers and Taxi s Rhea Perlman), octogenarian author Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) uses his frequent book tours as opportunities to let erotic imagination take flight. There are fantasy flings with a needy widow (Caroline Aaron) and a Cuban housekeeper (Elizabeth Pena Lone Star), which then give way to a real-life intimate encounter with a former student (Barbara Hershey Hoosiers). Finally, a fondly recalled but painful interlude with a free spirited woman (Tovah Feldsuh Kissing Jessica Stein) challenges Max s peace of mind even as it feeds his work. In Love Comes Lately, writer-director Jan Schütte (has gone above and
beyond the call of dutiful adaptation - Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer), using (excellent visual correlatives for the blurring of the line between Max and his writing - Variety), to create an (atmospheric, exhilaratingly ambitious chamber piece - Village Voice) and (a sympathetic portrait of late life lust and romance - Time Out). (texte officiel du distributeur)