Movies (about getting old)

'Et si on vivait tous ensemble? ('And If We All Lived Together?) a.k.a All Together

I think our minds have a natural tendency to hyperlink from a to z and back again, and anywhere in between. A friend sent me an email reminding me about the coming French Movie Festival in Sydney which reminded me of the last time I saw a French movie with her.

I'm not very good with film reviews, something which might change after I complete me next unit with the Open University, Introduction to Screen Analysis. I remember that enjoyed watching this movie, with a group of friends, at the Chauvel cinema in Paddington (Sydney), followed by a meal and drinks at the Woollahra Hotel. I also remember that it had a great ending, sad, but not too sad, and not clichéd.

I remember seeing another good French movie, Little White Lies, (review) which was described as a French version of The Big Chill. You could describe And If We All Lived Together as the French senior citizens' version of The Big Chill, although it's more of an end game as the participants don't meet up for a holiday, but for good, eternity perhaps.

It fits this wiki anyway, with its theme of a group of older people deciding to live together to look after each other. I have an elderly friend with whom I had coffee every lunchtime. I've not seen her for three days and I'm worried about her. I've knocked on her door, knocked on her neighbour's door, rang the local hospital, been to see the local housing association which looks after her block of apartments, who promised to ring me back.

I was able to look after my father as he steadily declined to the point where he suffered heart failure, followed by a final few months in hospital and nursing home. He through the stages of relative good health, to becoming house-bound, needed a carer to see him to help him wash and dress, and I think he consented to wearing one of those alarms you wear around your neck. At least I was there for him (as he was for me, to be honest) and a neighbour touched me at his funeral by telling me I'd done a good job looking after him. But who's going to look after me? (Cue violins?)

Ends.

You Tube Reviews

Little White Lies

All Together

The Big Chill

Sydney French Film Festival 2016