Monday, May 21, 2018
Nostalgia
This is not a sneak preview. This film has already released, apparently back in January/February & available on DVD & through streaming beginning in the month of May. This was an AARP Movies for Grownups event screening.
This is a collection of sad stories of love & loss and how different people try to cope & deal with their tragic situations. These are unpleasant experiences that are difficult to face & for most people would rather avoid if possible. When someone dies or when a fire decimates a home, what becomes of the objects, artifacts, photographs, etc. that are left behind? Do they have a worth/value? Is there a memory or sentimental attachment? Or are they just things to be sold or to be trashed? Do the young & the old look at these things the same? These are just some of the issues raised in this slow moving hard to watch film. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do. Among the stellar cast, we find Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, John Hamm, Catherine Keener, Amber Tamblyn, Nick Offerman, & Patton Oswald. The film is well acted but a real Debbie Downer where you’ll wallow in depression & drown in sorrows.
This is not a sneak preview. This film has already released, apparently back in January/February & available on DVD & through streaming beginning in the month of May. This was an AARP Movies for Grownups event screening.
This is a collection of sad stories of love & loss and how different people try to cope & deal with their tragic situations. These are unpleasant experiences that are difficult to face & for most people would rather avoid if possible. When someone dies or when a fire decimates a home, what becomes of the objects, artifacts, photographs, etc. that are left behind? Do they have a worth/value? Is there a memory or sentimental attachment? Or are they just things to be sold or to be trashed? Do the young & the old look at these things the same? These are just some of the issues raised in this slow moving hard to watch film. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do. Among the stellar cast, we find Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, John Hamm, Catherine Keener, Amber Tamblyn, Nick Offerman, & Patton Oswald. The film is well acted but a real Debbie Downer where you’ll wallow in depression & drown in sorrows.
Alien gives it 2 “saudade” stars out of 4.
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