Based on three stories by Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jan Schutte's film offers a sympathetic portrayal of a subject most often played for smirks and snickers: Late-life love and lust.
Manhattan-based Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an acclaimed writer: Not as acclaimed as some, as he's reminded in a dozen small but piercing ways, but sufficiently respected to receive numerous lecture invitations that offer the chance to escape the watchful eye of longtime lover, Reisel (Rhea Perlman). Kohn is 80 years old, the veteran of three marriages and plagued by the usual infirmities to which aging flesh is heir, but his erotic imagination remains undimmed. H...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
86 mins