The Last Station: Thank Heavens for Euro film mkers . . .

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Who else would take a seemingly forgotten or uninteresting topic and make a major motion picture? Not America...no red ink here! Who cares about the Tolstoyan Movement? Somebody across 3500 miles of ocean, apparently.

This is a delightful movie in every way. Shot with the highest standards, the best actors all on-key, and a compelling script this film dramatizes the last days of Tolstoy as he tries to make sure his new found belief in love (not God) and passive resistance is his legacy. In this process his movement advisors (Giamatti) steer and guide him away from his family's historical ideals (he was a Count) at all costs. His wife (Mirren) is nearly hysterical of what she fears is the loss of the family fortune as she constantly bickers and collides with Leo and his movements top echelon.

James McAvoy plays a young idealist who is hired to be Tolstoy's personal secretary and is sent down with instructions by Giamatti to write everything in a diary. When he arrives, Mirren befriends McAvoy and instructs him to write everything in another diary. He soons finds himself in the jaws of a vice pressing on his loyalties between the two.

There is humor, delight, and high drama all done exquisitely. This should not be missed.

(PS. This is a German-Russian production.)

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Topic - The Last Station: Thank Heavens for Euro film mkers . . . - mr grits 19:17:06 03/03/10 (7)

Euro financed. Written, produced & directed by American Michael Hoffman . . . - Harmonia 18:38:51 03/05/10 (0)

Do we get to see Helen's tits? nt - tinear 19:20:00 03/03/10 (5)

No, and be glad. She gave Tolstoy 13 children! * - mr grits 19:36:45 03/03/10 (4)

How'd she make this film, she's been dead 100 years! nt - tinear 20:25:17 03/03/10 (3)

Mirren has not aged well....too many smokes and whiskey--her own admission. * - mr grits 12:56:04 03/04/10 (2)

As Johnny Rotten said so often in the infamous LA interview to every female that called in, "Show us - tinear 21:43:03 03/04/10 (1)

Did Stern say it first? * - mr grits 21:08:07 03/05/10 (0)

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