Starting Out In The Evening (2007)
An aging, sickly author, Leonard Schiller, is writing his last novel. He doesn't have a lot of time yet and hasn't written in years. Most of his books are out of print. Meanwhile, a young, attractive grad student named Heather is writing her graduate thesis on him. She convinces him to take precious time away from his writing (which takes several meetings of persuasion) to let her interview him. Heather is inspired by his writing and takes a romantic interest in him.
5/10. And five out of ten is probably generous. This is shades of 'Finding Forrester' but whereas one is a Hollywood motion picture and has Sean Connery in it, this is a Cannes film festival award nominee and no doubt has loads of arty types talking in the bar afterwards and telling each other they felt it worked on four levels.
This is a film that my Mom would describe as 'a bit slow'. It's not a film you would rent for a night in with 'the lads' and at times, you find yourself desperately itching to grab the remote control and fast forward it a bit. Just to see if the old codger can blow his beans for one last time with a young impressionable university student. Perhaps he did but I kind of skipped the last twenty minutes.
A lively confident, slightly annoying student with gingery hair worships an aging writer whose books have long been the stuff of bargain bins.
The IMDB website put it quite beautifully -'Not for everyone'