An ode to the 50-something woman ... that's not something you often see in a film review! I really enjoyed this gentle, funny, optimistic film tonight and the cinema was packed. (Agnès Jaoui, I gather, is very well-known in France.) In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I got chatting to a Frenchwoman on the train home - who loved it just as much as I did - and went past my stop. Heavens ... the film that made a Londoner talk to another passenger on the Tube! They should put that on the poster.
Aurore is a menopausal woman who has lost her husband, her job, her name - her creepy boss thinks it's sexier to call her Samantha - and she's becoming so invisible that even automatic door sensors ignore her. Then she meets a group of older women who show her that it's never too late.
The French Film Festival runs until mid-December but what a shame that this won't have a wider release. I've just checked the leaflet: not a hope unless you're in Edinburgh/Glasgow/Inverness/Hull/
Richmond, North Yorkshire/Hereford. (You might find it billed as Fifty Springtimes, the English title.)
The other film I saw this week was The Killing of a Sacred Deer: laugh-out-loud funny, but very, very weird.
Welcome back Mary. I am dreading the inevitable demise of my venerable Mac... The main problem will be the photo library as I will lose iPhoto in the move and all my sorted folders if reports are accurate.
ReplyDeleteIt has been traumatic, Lucille. Everything seems fussier than it used to be. I'd hoped the old one might be repairable but it was past it. Needless to say, nothing was backed up!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly have eclectic tastes, Mary!
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of the French film....
Well, I wasn't sure about Killing of a Sacred Deer, Veronica, but the trailer intrigued me and I loved his earlier film The Lobster - though I remember going with a friend who hated it.
ReplyDeleteThe French film was lovely - you could feel the whole cinema enjoying it - and it's such a shame that it's not on wider release.