There was a time in her life she (Dominique LaFleur) was truly, madly,
deeply in love with him - and he with her ... but his feelings changed
over time, and when she wouldn't accept their breakup and bombard him with
phonecalls, he even blocked her phonenumber. These days, she resorts to
"box therapy" to come over her loss, which means she's writing
and drawing her feelings onto a cardboard box to put it to good use
afterwards - and the use she puts it to might indeed make her feel better
... Last Words is pretty much a poetic rendition of a
break-up, with a woman creating and ultimately destroying primitive art,
set to soundfiles from her lover's telephone messages that range from the
romantic to the hateful, but that are perfectly set to the musical score
and that come across like verses of a song, giving the essentially
perfectly simple story an extra dimension. And the punchline of the movie
is as unexpected as it is just great!
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