The Nee brothers film,
The Last Romantic, is a narrative journey through the eyes of its lead character, Calvin Wizzig (played by Adam Nee, half of the screenwriting/production team), an undiscovered poet waiting for the world to discover his talent. The film brilliantly follows the random adventures of Calvin as he journeys through NYC, attempting to find a publisher for his poems.
I am a poet/I'm chivalry/I'm chastity/I mate for life/Do I mate for life/I'm fresh ideas echoes as we meet Calvin. He carries a little notebook, the home of his poems, which turn out to be simply two poems no more than a few lines, tucked between pages of doodles and letters back home to his sister Elizabeth. Calvin Wizzig is the
last romantic, viewing life through a sometimes black & white grainy fantasy, complete with wafting accordion sounds and sultry women. Although Calvin claims his journey is to publish poems, he is really traveling to find love, searching for a home.
Every bit of the film is perfectly shot, from a wedding scene (Calvin fills in as a groom for a woman left by her groom) tinted in sepia, to the black and white shots every time Calvin meets up with a particular woman. This same deliberate vision of the screenwriters is apparent in the film's credits, which claims it is "Based on the book 'The Girl on the Train' by Calvin Wizzig," a fictional vision of the film's narrator carried through to the end.