I saw this today in Paris.
It's charming, moving, with an excellent cast. It manages to be touching without being stupid, it's often funny, and it's simple - in a good way: ordinary people although with their dreams or fears.
Compared to, say, "Somewhere" which, to me, was pretentious and vacant, this is a success. Pity it probably won't find a large audience!
Possible ***SPOILERS***
It won't find a large audience because, unfortunately, it's a boring film about boring, unlikeable people. Their characters weren't developed enough to provide any reason to care about either of them.
Isabella R did a good job, but her character did goofy things that made her seem rather stupid/loony (such as suddenly springing all the "old" people on her husband in his own home without any warning). Who does stuff like that? Only someone who is either an idiot or who is trying really hard to annoy/alienate their partner.
Did I like anything about it? Great to see Joanna Lumley and.... no, that's about it. Found it tedious and trivial.
Yes... you are right... the old people is specially boring..
But.. I have a good news for you... everybody are YOUNG PEOPLE...!!!, because after 45 everybody dead...!!! YEAHHH...!!
Oscar
Hablo mejor español :)
I am glad you liked it, Darklineuse.
I must confess I found it terrifiyngly depressing.
Frthermore, I'll confess that I would consider behavior such as the wife's (acted excellently, of course) to be grounds for mandatory divorce. :)
Seriously, I know there are people like that; I may even know a few.
And I certainly see how and why they behave like that. The humanity of their impulses is not in question.
But in real life they are actually toxic, to the point of being highly dangerous for their loved ones. (I am not theorizing here; I speak from observed experience.)
I was terribly, terribly depressed after seeing it, and actually wished I had never seen it.
This doesn't make it a bad movie.
It just makes it a movie I shouldn't have seen.