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Nolte has always had a liking for offbeat-to-arbitrary endeavors, and so he does his best to keep “Last Words” going in its first half. He has let his hair grow all over the place here, and though Nolte has reached the age of 80, there is still something touchingly childlike and hopeful in his sparkling, ultra-blue eyes. This all goes on for quite some time, and Nolte does his best to give the daft material some of his natural gravitas. Hand-held camerawork predictably alternates with static shots as Nolte’s Shakespeare expounds on the myth of the movies and gets Kal to help him create celluloid and fix up cameras. The cave of Nolte’s Shakespeare is littered with twentieth-century film memorabilia: posters of Robert Mitchum, Marcello Mastroianni, Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, and of Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon.” Kal loses his sister, and he eventually encounters a former film director named Shakespeare (Nolte), and they speak to each other in English, though Nolte’s rasping voice has become so rock-bottom muddy that he makes Jason Robards sound like some dewy British ingenue by contrast. In a flashback to two years prior, we see Kal and his sister discover food and water and detritus of cinema gone by, and they look with wonder at bits of celluloid while he gradually picks up English phrases from books the camera takes in a poster for Dziga Vertov’s silent Russian classic “Man with a Movie Camera” as Kal touches it reverently. Writer-director Jonathan Nossiter begins his movie with narration from young African Kal (first-timer Kalipha Touray), who lets us know we are in the year 2086 and that he is a last survivor on the planet Earth.
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For implausibility, perversity, cluelessness, and sheer silliness, it’s hard to imagine another movie this year that will top “Last Words,” a post-apocalyptic ode to the magic of cinema in which veteran actors Nick Nolte, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling play survivors of an ecological catastrophe and gamely look as if they haven’t bathed in a long while for the camera.