For those of you who saw "The Last Station," what did you think?

I can’t wait to read the responses. I haven’t seen it yet, but was fascinated by the casting and the premise.

I haven’t seen the film, but several of my friends said they enjoyed it.
Helen Mirren is genius in whatever she’s in and both Mirren and Plummer were nominated for Golden Globes and Oscars, so you know the performances were solid.
Here’s a list of the many awards this film was nominated for. Mirren won for best actress at the Rome Film Fest and Michael Hoffman won for Best International Literature Adaptation. I’m sure the film is worth it.

I loved it! I am a student of 19th century literature and I thought I was back in a Russian novel; the romance, the heart, the histrionics, the idealism. I found it just delightful; the ending part was a smidge too long, but otherwise, two enthusiastic thumbs up! If you go @marinelife and @gailcalled, let me know what you think.

We’re going next week. I will report back. I can guess why the title is what it is, having read a heavy bio of Tolstoy.

edit; Mrs. T was Sophia and not Sonja.

I just saw it today. Very good performances in a semi-biographical story, based on a book I didn’t read, about late-life Tolstoy & his wife around 1910. There’s melodrama but it follows from the characters. Maybe a tad draggy at times. Overall a good movie.

I saw the movie on Thurs. night.It was very interesting, but I had read the biography of Tolstoy, which helped. The movie rarely mentions his novels and dwells instead on his socialist and utopian visions of his later years.

Mirren blows the roof off. And there are many scenes of tea (served in glasses) and brass samovars, which my Russian ancestors used. They all also ate jam off a spoon with their tea. The background, filled with peasants and picturesque animals, triggered thoughts of my maternal grandmother’s family. Her father was an estate manager and well-enough off to have his four sons take violin lessons. My grandmother got to be the family baby sitter and assistant housekeeper (and remained bitter about this until she died.)

Unfortunately, it was filmed in Germany, but still very evocative.

It had the authentic look of all the Merchant/Ivory films. If you decide to go, read the history on Wikipedia first. Otherwise, the story may seem muddled.

I now want to see this film!