‘Last Chance Harvey’

“Last Chance Harvey” is a little like finding that parking ticket you thought you’d lost -- a little sweet relief. A minimalist meditation on loneliness and love from writer-director Joel Hopkins, it stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson as strangers who find each other just as any possibility for romance seems to be tapped out. Hopkins takes his time getting Kate and Harvey together, moving seamlessly between their separate humiliations. The power in these moments, whether painful or comical or both, comes from their ordinary everydayness rather than cruel intentions. When they finally do connect, most of what happens unfolds as they walk the streets of a sleek glass-and-steel London. In between meandering conversations, love begins to bloom, and it’s lovely, for a little while, to walk alongside them.