{"id":6503,"date":"2010-09-02T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:02:33","slug":"the-last-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/the-last-station\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST STATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6511\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stationposter-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"stationposter\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stationposter-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/stationposter.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leo Tolstoy is long considered one of the greatest novelists of our time.\u00a0 Celebrated for works such as \u201cWar and Peace\u201d and \u201cAnna Karenina\u201d, his appeal is as universal as the language of love itself, a language for which he publicly espoused its idealistic virtues, but behind closed doors, led a life in his final days that was anything but.\u00a0 Married to the Countess Sofya for 48 years, theirs was a true partnership, a true story of love and hate, passion and fury.\u00a0\u00a0 With a vast difference in their ages, sexual prowess was also a driving force in their marriage, with Sofya bearing 13 children and Tolstoy fathering a countless number thanks to his philandering ways.\u00a0\u00a0 Often described as Tolstoy\u2019s muse, Sofya even served for years as his secretary, going so far as to copy \u201cWar and Peace\u201d by hand six times.<\/p>\n<p>But with all of Tolstoy\u2019s fame and glory, trouble eventually ensued; trouble arising from the deification of Tolstoy by his disciple, Vladimir Chertkov, and the creation of a new religion predicated on Tolstoy\u2019s teachings.\u00a0 From these acts, the battle lines were drawn in the Tolstoy household as Chertkov and Sofya went head-to-head for Tolstoy\u2019s affection and allegiance, particularly when it was suspected that Chertkov wrangled Tolstoy into writing a new will, a will that would leave his entire wealth, including his writings, their copyrights and all future royalties to the Russian people instead of the Tolstoy family.\u00a0\u00a0 Enter Valentin Bulgakov.<\/p>\n<p>A devotee of all things Tolstoyan, when offered the opportunity to serve as personal secretary to his idol, Valentin jumps at the chance.\u00a0\u00a0 Initially brought into the fold at Chertkov\u2019s behest, Valentin is requested to be Chertkov\u2019s eyes and ears, aiding him in gathering evidence to help Chertkov convince Tolstoy that Sofya will be his downfall and that his true legacy lies with the Russian people and the world.\u00a0 On the other hand, Sofya sees not only the malleable naivete in Valentin, but the goodness and purity in his heart, particularly when it comes to his feelings for another Tolstoy follower, Masha.\u00a0 Free-spirited and free-thinking, while Masha may believe in some of Tolstoy\u2019s teachings she is not blinded by them and has her own rather unconventional views on love and sex, something that both enthralls and confuses Valentin who is rapidly falling in love while just as quickly seeing the dichotomy and hypocrisy of Tolstoy himself.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Privy to arguments on both sides of the coin, and now exposed to the joys and wonders of love and sex, Valentin becomes an unwitting pawn in this game of war and peace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6506\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162551-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-13_162551\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162551-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162551-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162551.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Chertkov has his own agenda, Tolstoy seeks only peace and serenity.\u00a0 Not in the best of health, the pulling, pushing, conniving and deceit is getting to be too much for him. In the meantime, Sofya is determined to not let Chertkov get the upper hand.\u00a0 Fighting to keep what she deems to be hers (and rightfully so), she goes all out, no holds barred, pulling out all the stops known to womankind, assailing Tolstoy\u2019s emotions with her arsenal of tricks and womanly wiles, not realizing that instead of realigning him with her and their marriage, she is driving him farther away to THE LAST STATION at Astapovo.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren embody the roles of Leo and Sofya Tolstoy.\u00a0 A slightly backward step in regal lineage, Mirren this time plays a Countess as opposed to a Queen (something she has done 6 times).\u00a0 Herself the granddaughter of a Tsarist aristocrat, both in person and on screen, Mirren has an undeniable regal air about her.\u00a0\u00a0 Probably one of the tastiest female roles to come along in a long time, Sofya provides Mirren an outlet to let it all hang out.\u00a0\u00a0 She seizes the role, making it her own.\u00a0 Describing Sofya as a \u201chigh drama, volcanic creature\u201d, Mirren celebrates Sofya\u2019s actual madness which\u00a0 according to director Michael Hoffman, allows her to \u201cbe a drama queen.\u201d\u00a0 For Mirren, portraying Sofya was a delicate task \u201cbecause she was such a drama queen, you could alienate the audience very fast.\u00a0 That was the challenge in playing it &#8211; to play the drama full on emotionally but not to become arched or subconscious or theatrical with it.\u00a0 You had to feel that this is just how she felt.\u00a0 That this was real for her.\u00a0 It was all absolutely real, of the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side of the coin is Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy.\u00a0 Reluctant hero, Plummer is the perfect stubborn pacifist to the histrionic melodrama Mirren brings to Sofya.\u00a0 Plummer is emotionally larger than life as this iconic individual but at the same time often adding a reflective sensibility and human confusion to Tolstoy when dealing with issues in his own life.\u00a0 Individually, Mirren and Plummer are mesmerizing.\u00a0 Together they areexplosive.\u00a0 Described by Hoffman as \u201cextremely sexual individuals\u201d,\u00a0 not to be missed is a seductive sex scene between the two which will have you laughing out loud while your heart just smiles.\u00a0 Just think \u201ccock-a-doodle-doo\u201d and Scarlett O\u2019Hara the morning after her \u201crape\u201d scene in GWTW and you\u2019ll know what I mean.\u00a0 Priceless!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6507\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162606-400x264.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-13_162606\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162606-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162606-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162606.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using the character of Valentin Bulgakov as the emotional center of the film, his casting was critical and I can think of few that could bring the sensitivity to the role like James McAvoy does.\u00a0 With a wide eyed innocence, McAvoy easily leads us through the traps, trappings and conflicts of the Tolstoyan universe, making this as much an eye-opening experience for the audience as for Valentin.\u00a0 McAvoy\u2019s enthusiasm for the role is boundless and goes far in conveying the real Valentin\u2019s own thoughts and conflicts with the world into which he was placed.\u00a0\u00a0 A perfect compliment to McAvoy is Kerry Condon as the headstrong, free-spirited Masha.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6508\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162621-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-13_162621\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162621-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162621-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162621.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there is anyone to give Christopher Waltz a run for Oscar gold for Best Supporting Actor, it\u2019s Paul Giamatti who is brilliant as Chertkov. (Ironically, the name \u201cChert\u201d in Russian means \u201cDevil\u201d, thus the popular belief among many in the early 1900&#8217;s that Chertkov was the Devil Incarnate.)\u00a0 Giamatti\u2019s performance expertly captures the exact tonal quality of Chertkov\u2019s own writings while doing an emotional balancing act that oozes evil, but evil rooted in love clouded by obsession .\u00a0 Key is also the comedic element that Giamatti brings to Chertkov\u2019s zealot nature.\u00a0 I can\u2019t get enough of him!<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Michael Hoffman presents a brilliant portrait of the final days of Leo Tolstoy.\u00a0\u00a0 Drawing on the 1990 novel by Jay Parini, as well as diaries of the Tolstoy family and friends, public records, film reels, the writings of Vladimir Chertkov (including his 1922 writings and the January 1911 pamphlet \u201cThe Last Days of Leo Tolstoy\u201d released one month after Tolstoy\u2019s death, covering Chertkov\u2019s first-hand observations of the final month of Tolstoy\u2019s life with daily entries up through the day of death) and the Tolstoy family themselves, Hoffman tells not a biopic of Tolstoy, but rather a love story, a love story seen through the eyes of Valentin Bulgakov.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6509\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162638-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-13_162638\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162638-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162638-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162638.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THE LAST STATION came to Hoffman courtesy \u201cof the drama queens in my house which are myself and my wife.\u00a0 Quite frankly, I read the book in 1990 and I didn\u2019t see what the movie was. Who would want to see a biography on Tolstoy?\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 But then \u201cI read it again in 2004 and saw immediately what it was.\u201d\u00a0 Attributing his change in perspective to his being married 12 of the intervening past 14 years, \u201cI wanted to make a tragic comedy about marriage because\u00a0 I\u2019m fascinated by how difficult it is.\u00a0 How problematic it is. Very rarely do you sit with your wife or husband or significant other and talk about the fact that \u2018at one time I really really felt close to this person and now I feel a kind of despair.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adapting the Parini book for the big screen was no easy task.\u00a0 A \u201creductive\u201d process, there \u201cis no easy way\u201d to do the adaptation, however, by turning this into a screenplay, \u201cyou get some kind of power through thematic concentration.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Spending a lot of time with individual diaries, \u201cA lot of\u00a0 time with Bulgakov\u2019s diaries.\u00a0 A lot of time with Chertkov\u2019s diary.\u00a0 A lot of time with Sofya\u2019s diaries\u201d, Hoffman describes THE LAST STATION as a \u201cstory about living with the difficulties of living with love and the difficulty of living without it\u201d.\u00a0 Deftly\u00a0 portraying the very best and very worst of life and love, Hoffman\u2019s interpretation of the fresh new relationship between Valentin and Masha is contrasted with the hell and ending of that of Sofya and Tolstoy.\u00a0 Distinctive between the two is the similarity between the couples, prompting comparison of Valentin and Masha to what Sofya and Tolstoy were 48 years earlier.\u00a0\u00a0 The complexity, richness and humor of these characters and their relationships is beautifully told.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6510\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162655-400x264.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-13_162655\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162655-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162655-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2010-01-13_162655.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technically the film is masterful.\u00a0 A truly international project, German cinematographer Sebastian Edschmid\u2019s work is beauteous and his method of shooting multiple view eyelines of a scene, allows for the best possible visual sequences and effect.\u00a0 Key to the film\u2019s cohesiveness and strength of story, particularly given the lengthy monologues, is Hoffman\u2019s technique of shooting by running entire scenes multiple times and not just grabbing single shots here and there.\u00a0 Very theatrical and appropriate given the subject matter and \u201c enabled the actors to embrace the characters even more.\u201d\u00a0 Production Designer Patrizia von Brandenstein just wows not only with the exquisite\u00a0 German locations in Saxony, Leipzig and Brandenberg substituting for 1910 Russia, but with her attention to detail in recreating the Tolstoy estate and the Tolstoy residence.\u00a0 Monika Jacob\u2019s costuming is period perfect.<\/p>\n<p>But it is Sergey Yevtushenko\u2019s score that ebbs and flows with the emotional tides, adding a harmonious background to the on screen conflict.<\/p>\n<p>For Hoffman, I sensed real pride in the fact that the Tolstoys \u201cvalidated what we had done because they said the way in which the relationship between Tolstoy and Sofya is represented in the film is much truer to what the family believes was their relationship.\u00a0\u00a0 They completely embraced it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leo Tolstoy &#8211; Christopher Plummer<\/p>\n<p>Sofya Tolstoy &#8211; Helen Mirren<\/p>\n<p>Valentin Bulgakov &#8211; James McAvoy<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Chertkov &#8211; Paul Giamatti<\/p>\n<p>Masha &#8211; Kerry Condon<\/p>\n<p>Written and Directed by Michael Hoffman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: debbie lynn elias Leo Tolstoy is long considered one of the greatest novelists of our time.\u00a0 Celebrated for works such as \u201cWar and Peace\u201d and \u201cAnna Karenina\u201d, his appeal is as universal as the language of love itself, a language for which he publicly espoused its idealistic virtues, but behind closed doors, led a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[955],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews","tag-the-last-station"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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