The Last Station

Love Hurts

In “The Last Station,” Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man—Leo Tolstoy in his eighties, imposing, stentorian, and almost alarmingly active. Helen Mirren, letting her age show and still the most sexual actress onscreen, is his equal as Sofya, Tolstoy’s wife of forty-eight years. Like Tolstoy, Sofya is built along heroic, Old Testament lines: she has borne him thirteen children; she has copied out “War and Peace” in longhand six times; she has run his household and loves him as passionately as ever. [...]

di David Denby, articolo completo (5088 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 14 dicembre 2009