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The Last Station

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Format: Blu-ray June 22, 2010


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Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress, The Queen, 2006) and Christopher Plummer star in this compelling look at the final days of literary icon Leo Tolstoy. Having renounced his title and property, Tolstoy makes plans to donate his royalties to the Russian People, supported by his trusted disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti). Tolstoy's outraged wife wages a one-woman war to challenge her husband's outrageous act of idealism. Co-starring Golden Globe® nominee James McAvoy (Best Actor - Drama, Atonement, 2008) as the novelist's worshipful assistant whose romance with a free- spirited young woman puts Tolstoy's notion of ideal love to the ultimate test. Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, and James McAvoy lead an impeccable cast in The Last Station, a sweet comedy-drama about the final days of the Russian novelist Tolstoy. Nineteenth-century paparazzi lurk outside of Tolstoy's estate, hoping to snatch a picture of the rumored strife between the world-famous writer (Plummer, The Insider), who's launched an antimaterialist movement, and his aristocratic wife, Sofya (Mirren, The Queen). Also lurking is Tolstoy's aide, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti, Sideways), who despises Sofya and pushes to change Tolstoy's will to prevent Sofya from inheriting the royalties from Tolstoy's books. Into this nest of conflict comes a young secretary, Valentin (McAvoy, Atonement), who idolizes Tolstoy and strives to live by the principles of abstinence and vegetarianism… only to find his purity tested by sensual temptations (including a headstrong young woman played by Kerry Condon of Rome) and an unexpected sympathy for Sofya. Moments of sly comedy keep The Last Station from becoming overly literary. The movie as a whole lacks the emotional punch it reaches for, but every scene is a polished jewel, expertly and passionately crafted by the actors and writer-director Michael Hoffman (A Midsummer Night's Dream), rich with feeling and social detail. Mirren, of course, is superb, with a wonderful portrayal of a woman who can't help turning her genuine passions into a performance that repels her husband. --Bret Fetzer Stills from The Last Station (Click for larger image)


Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.351


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.44 x 5.3 x 6.79 inches; 5.92 Ounces


Item model number ‏ : ‎ 7469790


Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Hoffman


Media Format ‏ : ‎ AC-3, NTSC, Subtitled, Blu-ray, Dolby, Widescreen


Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 53 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ June 22, 2010


Actors ‏ : ‎ James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff


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    • The beauty of difficult choices
What a beautiful, appealing film is the Last Station. Even if it takes placed during th final months of the celebrated author Leo Tolstoy's life, it is really about life and its complexities and choices and options. The scenes of the Russian countryside are beautiful and certainly explain why Tolstoy would opt for the pure country life in his later years. The acting is perfect with Helen Mirren and James McAvoy delivering wonderful performances. The film is about complexity also. Life offers complexity and this film does a superb job of revealing the conflicting nature of our desires and personal philosophy. Leo Tolstoy, played beautifully by Christopher Plummer, is torn between his love and loyalty to his large family and to the Russian peasants and the rest of downtrodden humanity. His wife, Countess Sophya Tolstoy, played by Mirren, wishes for the royalties of his many novels to remain as part of the family estate, providing her, her children, her grandchildren with income for generations to come. Yet Tolstoy's personal philosophy has become a new emerging ideology and the primary disciple and mover of the movement wishes that Tolstoy would make all his works available free of copy right to anyone who wishes to publish and distribute his work. The screenwriters displayed perfect balance between Helen Mirren as the Countess, concerned with the security of herself and family and that of Paul Giamatti who is standardizing and canonizing Tolstoy's philosophy for the good of mankind. Is the Countess greedy? Yes, but so is everyone to some extent. It is a normal human emotion and it is not until the Countess becomes extremely histrionic that Count Leo Tolstoy becomes weary of her manipulation. Giamatti plays a more controlled and careful character, trying to make the works of the great writer as accessible and affordable as possible, yet in the name of loving and helping mankind, he cuts corners and hurts. This is not a simple issue for we have seen the results of ideology gone wrong in the lives and careers of Robespierre, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, Stalin, and others. The zealot who will hurt other humans for a higher good is a theme of great importance for ideologies that are meant to spread love often spread pain, hatred, and intolerance. Tolstoy is torn between them personally and intellectually and the film displays his struggle to reconcile these warring camps. The screen writers inserted the naïve, thoughtful, observer in the character of Tolstoy's new secretary, played by James McAvoy. Tolstoy insists that all world religion is based on the common concept and experience of human love. McAvoy begins to experience that love and it opens him up to the struggle that Count Tolstoy undergoes in the power struggle between his wife and his disciples. Valentin, the secretary, is amazed that Tolstoy wishes to know all about him and to hear his life experiences. He is amazed that a great man wishes to hear the experiences and thoughts of a young man rather than relate his own illustrious career and philosophy. I love this concept in the film for great men are open to experiences of others, to their views, their pain and belief, for it fuels the mind and soul of a great man to hear these things. Tolstoy is the great man who wishes not to impress you with his philosophy but to open you to your own personal philosophy. The virgin Valentin is opened to a world of emotion, experience, and love when he meets a fellow pilgrim, Masha, played by the subtle beauty, Kerry Condon. Valentin is placed in a similar situation to Tolstoy, do we side with those whom we love or do we side with those comrades who join us in philosophy and ideology for the better good? Valentin calls Masha to him whereas Tolstoy must separate himself from hysteria to gain peace of mind in his final days. The film is a beautiful life affirming experience and is highly recommended. I left the film feeling elated for there are no easy solutions, there are no uncomplicated relationships, there are no decisions that don't have unforeseen consequences; yet the human heart is a guide - a blind, innocent, easily fooled guide, but a guide none the less. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2013 by C. Collins
    • For Tolstoy Lovers or Just Historical Romantic Films
For a Tolstoy fan, this clearly wasn't long enough. Hah. It should've been on par with his actual novels! Or akin to the film 1910 at 5.5 hours! Can't sell that in Hollywood I guess. Too bad the die hards would've stuck it out. But for what it was it was a sweet treat and captured the essence of Tolstoy's final hours and no better actor (Plummer), could've played him I don'think. Helen Mirren really rocked playing Tolstoy's wife Sophia and really hard to tell in this film who should've gotten an Oscar nod but unlikely they thought it substantive enough somehow. Even so really beautiful filmmaking. Mirren was a joy on screen and I think deserves credit for showing off the real life, and in many ways justifiable concerns she had for preserving the monies and estates due 13 of their children and also the concerns she had for these periphery, early Communistos for stealing her husbands work to freely give to the people. He was already a legend to the people so not sure what the aim of Chekhov and others was exactly less to make it somehow symbolic if while robbing his family of monies. Thank goodness the Russian Congress saw it Sophia's way later even though guessing The Soviets stole it all back again. Mr. Giamatti and McaVoy were perfectly suited to play Valentin Bulgakov and Anton Chekhov. Hang out for the credits to watch the old films from Tolstoy's final years for visual comparison between the real people and the actors! If you're really paying attention you can catch the sweetest glimpse of the real "Masha" in flirtation with Bulgakov. One critic of the book the novel the film is based on calls her "the movie's only fictitious character" but the actual film footage somewhat belies this and suggests there was a true Masha when he was a young man. Bulkakov, who did marry, has been cited as having had no physical relationships prior to his wife. Perhaps its true but Masha fits the commune hippie love character and for the film's sake, "corrupts" him a bit to further show his objectivity or perhaps to justify how he had loyalty to both Tolstoy and his wife? Either way its sweet, its fine, and the real life glimpse of Bulkakov and a blonde giggling it up makes a "Masha" seem all the more wished for and sweet. All the same, to me this was a delightful film, I think true to as much as it could be true given the time constraints that Tolstoy would've rejected and wouldn't even understood in our modern film paradigm. On a final note, it also shows something tragic between the fall of capitalist Russia to Communist and unlikely Tolstoy would've ever sanctioned the latter. The film isn't overtly commenting on this but hints around to it as its accurate really and one of the other reasons Tolstoy is so fascinating documenting these hours before and between the collapse. Thank God he never lived see The Soviet Union and all of it's "love" for the common man. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020 by Shannon Scott

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