SummaryIn a romantic comedy, a man and a woman love each other but everything conspires to drive them apart. Despite their true feelings, they separate now so they can be together later. The man and woman are Adam and Mary. But Mary and Adam aren't your typical 20 or 30-year-old couple; they're nearing 60. Like many 60-year-old couples of the 21st cen... Read More
Directed By:Julie Gavras
Written By:Olivier Dazat, Julie Gavras, David H. Pickering
Late Bloomers
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Metascore
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40% Positive
4 Reviews
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1 Review
Apr 13, 2012
75
Moves at a poky pace even by American indie standards. But it's worth checking out for the fine cast, which also includes Joanna Lumley as Rossellini's earthy pal, and scene-stealing Doreen Mantle as her tart-tongued but wise mother.
Apr 11, 2012
67
As a portrait of aging, Late Bloomers is a little too easy, but its cast makes it worth a look, even so.
Jun 6, 2012
63
An uneven but touching comedy with a cheery score that sounds too much like whistling on the way past the graveyard.
Apr 10, 2012
60
She (Rossellini) is radiant in a profoundly ordinary and believable way, as always, and stirs up generational pathos all by herself.
Apr 12, 2012
50
As more characters, including the couple's three children - enter the picture, Late Bloomers loses its narrative thread and becomes so choppy that you have the sense that it was butchered during the editing process. What remains is the skeleton of a story that leads to an abrupt, icky-cute ending.
Apr 10, 2012
40
While the world could certainly use more films about characters entering their sunset years, a solution as toothless and saggy as Julie Gavras' Late Bloomers does little to help the cause.
Apr 10, 2012
20
Hurt tries on an English accent as if he were in the Walmart changing room and a splendid-in-theory supporting cast - Simon Callow, Joanna Lumley, Arta Dobroshi - either ham it up or make moony eyes. Extra discredit to the embarrassingly jaunty score by Sodi Marciszewer, which should be taken behind the recording studio and shot.
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Jun 28, 2012
4
Late Bloomers, a comedy-drama about an aged couple who have different reactions to their aging is redeemed almost solely by its central performances by William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini. They give the film a boost it otherwise doesn't deserve. Gavras' ideas on aging are both typical and odd. The film is also weighed down by an all to lively trumpet filled score by Sodi Marciszewer that is definitely not suited to the film's tone. Overall, though, Late Bloomers is pretty much painless.
Production Company:
- Les Films du Worso
- The Bureau
- BE-FILMS
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- i2i Audiovisual
- Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
- Angoa-Agicoa
- uFilm
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- Umedia
Release Date:Apr 13, 2012
Duration:1 h 35 m
