Spoiler Alert: This
is a feel-good movie!
Bravo, bravo, Dustin Hoffman, for your directorial debut of
this wonderful movie! Also to Ronald Harwood for his charming screenplay.
This movie starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy
Connolly and Pauline Collins, is about a chateau-like retirement home for
retired musicians. Verdi’s birthday is celebrated annually with performances by
residents doing different musical numbers. Jean, the perfectly characterized
diva, is a recent arrival to the home and is surprised when she is confronted
by one of the residents who turns out to be her former husband, Reggie.
Jean is approached by Reggie and Wilf and Cissy to perform
at the event and reluctantly agrees. The movie ends with strains of the four in
the quartet singing as the camera leaves the home and fades to black.
But the movie isn’t over until credit after credit shows pictures of the current actors in the film along side pictures of themselves from bygone years in various theatrical and operatic performances.
I loved this movie; it made me smile and laugh and tap my
toe to some pretty recognizable classical music. The part of Cissy, played by
Pauline Collins, is the most endearing and charming of them all.
I want to live at this retirement home. I want to know these
people. I want to hear myriad performances being practiced in all corners of
this mansion in England
Compare this ‘old folks film’ with the likes of Meryl Streep
and Tommy Lee Jones experiencing sexual dysfunction in “Hope Springs
BRAVO!
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