The Farewell
Why this pick
Like All Together, it balances warmth and candid humour with illness, family obligation and generational friction, finding tenderness in a group trying to protect one another.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like All Together, it balances warmth and candid humour with illness, family obligation and generational friction, finding tenderness in a group trying to protect one another.
Why this pick
An affectionate, ensemble-led portrait of later life, friendship and reinvention, with the same buoyant compassion for older characters facing change.
Why this pick
Its prickly older protagonist and slowly forming neighbourhood bonds echo All Together’s humane interest in ageing, independence and the saving force of companionship.
Why this pick
A wry, observant family road film about ageing and dignity, pairing deadpan comedy with the quiet ache of relatives confronting what time has changed.
Why this pick
A tender, conversational friendship drama that confronts serious illness without sentimentality, preserving everyday jokes, affection and the complications of practical care.
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01 / THE STORY
Jean (Bedos) is a romantic revolutionary, yet enjoys the spoils of a bourgeois lifestyle with his wife, Annie (Chaplin). Annie is a retired psychologist, who complains about not being able to see enough of her children and assorted grandchildren. Albert (Richard) is showing increasing signs of dementia; his energetic American wife Jeanne (Fonda) is a former university lecturer who is suffering from cancer but who assures her husband that she is cured, yet shops for a brightly-colored coffin.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Jeanne

Albert



Jean

Dirk

Annie

Claude