The Last Station

The director Michael Hoffman (Restoration) adapts Rose Tremain’s historical novel about the last years of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and the struggle between his wife (Helen Mirren) and leading disciple (Paul Giamatti) over his legacy. With James McAvoy and Kerry Condon.

An Oscar nominee for Best Actress and Supporting Actor (Mirren and Plummer ).

A Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress - Drama (Mirren) and Best Supporting Actor (Plummer).

“It’s the most emotionally naked work of Mirren’s movie career; she gives poetic form to the madness and the violence of commonplace jealousy.” (David Denby, New Yorker)

“A lovely quicksilver version of literary history, with the accent on young love that emerges unbidden, and old love that endures.” (Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal)