Love Comes Lately [DVD]

Features

• Type: DVD
• Studio: eOne Films
• Language(s): english
• Director(s): Jan Schütte
• Actor(s): Rhea Perlman, Otto Tausig

Based on three short stories by ISaac Bashevis Singer (Yentl), Love Comes Lately braids fiction, fantasy, autobiography into a bittersweet comedy-drama pitting the self-reneweing 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 Pearlman), octogenarian author Max Kohn (Otto Tausig - Old Love) 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 - The Stunt Man). Finally, a fondly recalled but painful interlude with a free spirited woman (Tovah Feldshuh - 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).