After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times...by hand!—suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and even celibacy. After she's born him thirteen children! When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy's trusted disciple, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti)—whom she despises—may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his very own family, she is consumed by righteous outrage. This is the last straw. Using every bit of cunning, every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, she fights fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. A tale of two romances, one beginning, one near its end, The Last Station is a story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.I gave this movie the 30 minute lithmus test the other day. The movie did not remotely catch my interest at all. I will probably not be bothering to watch the rest of it. This is one of those movies that you know is "well done" and they were smart enough to cast Helen Mirren in it for the buzz that would come. At this point, she is like Judi Dench and by simply appearing in a movie will basically get nominated for lots of awards. There just wasn't anything that really hooked me in the part that I watched and I could kind of guess where things would end up just from the fraction of the movie that I had watched.
Since I didn't see the whole movie, I don't really think its my place to recommend or not. Just know that I have given this my stamp of "well done" movie that wasn't interesting enough for me to finish.
