Showing posts with label Retirement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retirement. Show all posts

Saturday, September 7, 2013

The best exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

an ensemble cast consisting of Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Penelope Wilton, as a group of British pensioners moving to a retirement hotel in India, run by the young and eager Sonny, played by Dev Patel.

Gets 78% & 79% in Rotten Tomatoes. About right. Wilkinson charcater is very well portrayed. Patel's seems a stereotype that nearly drowns in syrup. Ebert liked it. As did Stephen Holden in the Times: The screenplay does a reasonably skillful job of interweaving its subplots and of creating some mild surprises. This is a programmatically feel-good movie whose tempered optimism and insistence that it’s never too late to leave your comfort zone and explore new horizons stays mostly (but not always) on the safe side of sentimentality. Besides its sterling cast, its ace in the hole is its pungent depiction of Jaipur’s teeming streets, which give an otherwise well-mannered movie a blinding splash of color.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Assisted Loving

Bob Morris. Assisted loving: true tales of double dating with my father. (2008). New York : HarperCollins.

A patron asked for it on 15 April; I inter-loaned it. Picked it up today, and started reading. A great read. I laugh out loud.

In Chapter 3 ("Fa La La, etc.") he discusses the holidays: These are my party friends -- journalists, stylists, publicists (but no socialists) ...