Love Comes Lately

Synopsis: Love Comes Lately is a bittersweet film woven out of three Isaac Bashevis Singer stories about old age and the erotic imagination. Max Kohn (OTTO TAUSIG) is a writer in his seventies who is increasingly haunted by his weakening body and ebbing sexual prowess. The film opens with Max dreaming on an Amtrak train. In his dream, the conductor asks him if he sleeps with women anymore; the questioning becoming so intense and distressing that Max awakens, still disturbed by the interrogation. The remainder of the film similarly slips from the objective to the fictional world, as Max daydreams, flirts, longs for lost loves, dreams and pours his angst into his literary work. Singer wrote for a generation of Jews who faced the annihilation of their people, their culture and their language. Although his writing does not often overtly mention the Holocaust, it is emphatically about questions of survival, preservation, and the challenge of embracing life joys in the shadow of great horrors. Rather than write in broad sociological terms, Singer makes these questions personal and specific and tied to the endlessly fascinating quirks of everyday people.   Source: Kino International