The movie is a demonstration of what, in Huston’s terms, movies can give you that print can’t: primarily, the glory of performers -- performers with faces that have been written on by time and skill, performers with voices.

Anjelica Huston is effective as a woman mourning a love lost.

What redeems Huston's last gasp is the observational framing and agile editing with which the Morkan sisters' soiree is captured.

‘…one of the greatest works of art in cinema history, a pitch perfect take on one of literature’s greatest writers by one of cinema’s best directors…a beautiful dream of a film crammed with love, personality and sadness…’