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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Why this pick
Like Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, it finds wit, poignancy and unexpected renewal among older people facing loneliness, family distance and a radically altered daily life.
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MOVIE2005 1h 48m GBR
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Why this pick
Its London setting, dry humour and compassionate attention to an eccentric older woman make it a bracingly comic cousin to Mrs Palfrey’s dignified solitude.
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Elsa & Fred
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Venus
Why this pick
Another sharply observed London story of ageing and an unconventional cross-generational bond, with more acerbic humour but similarly humane emotional stakes.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, Mrs Palfrey (Joan Plowright) strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer (Rupert Friend). Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat. The two newly found friends discover they have a lot more in common with each other than they do with other people their own age. Ludovic inadvertently leads Mrs. Palfrey through her past; Mrs. Palfrey inadvertently leads Ludovic to his future where her life flashes before her eyes followed by a stroke resulting in the death of her illustrious life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert Lang
Mr. Osborne
Georgina Hale
Mrs. Burton
Timothy Bateson
Summers
Clare Higgins
Mrs. Meyer
David Webber
Cabbie
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Palfrey
Anna Massey
Mrs. Arbuthnot
Rupert Friend
Ludovic Meyer