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So there was a thread in Retirement Forum about films featuring themes about older people?
I'll have to do a search and look for it.
modhatter, that sounds interesting! I just had Netflix on a trial for one month and then cancelled it after the one month. (I could reinstate it though) I subscribed regularly a number of years ago.
So there was a thread in Retirement Forum about films featuring themes about older people?
I'll have to do a search and look for it.
modhatter, that sounds interesting! I just had Netflix on a trial for one month and then cancelled it after the one month. (I could reinstate it though) I subscribed regularly a number of years ago.
Is 5 star rated. Definitely worth getting Netflix to watch.
Don't read too far into the comments as it will give too many spoilers and you want to experience it as it comes.
Don't recall reading one on this forum on this subject matter, so post link if you find it.
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A big YES to Crossing to Safety and Olive Kitteridge!
New recommendations: Essays Over Eighty by Donald Hall. (Not a novel, obviously, but read it!) Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper. (Canadian and whimsical and wise and fun) Fear of Dying by Erica Jong. (Just finished. Fun, but first half better than second)
I did a search but did not find Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. A wonderful novel. Some parts read like linked short stories where the main character Olive, appear like a cameo appearance while the chapter is like a set piece about character that you may or may not see again. Well drawn characters with depth and complex inner lives. The strained relationship, estrangement, and final breakdown of relationship with adult child - a long thread in the Retirement forum. The marital relationship between Olive and her husband that spans 25 years. The setting is coastal, rural, Maine. It was made into an HBO movie and won many awards including Best Actress for Francess MadDermond. Equally enjoyable.
I don't usually care for fiction,but I loved "Olive Kitteridge" I also liked her other novels- "the burgess boys"and "abide with me". she has another novel out now, the name of which I can't recall, but her books are many layered with complex characters, and endings which have loose ends-much as in life.
I love anita brookner, an author who may be an acquired taste. she truly does write psychological novels- most of the action is mental. she has to be in her eighties so not sure if she is still writing.
yes, Anita Brookner very much delves into the inner life and psychology of the main characters, in a way that can be quite compelling to many readers.
I keep checking for a new novel by her.....she has been so prolific in her lifetime.....but I'm afraid she may have written the last novel of her life.
Enough Said, the last movie made by James Gandolfini is also very good. They're not exactly old people but its certainly a movie for those headed in that direction.
I'd recommend Anne Tyler's newest book: A Spool of Blue Thread. It is an excellent read and the central characters are older with adult children. It does move back and forth in memory, which is what we all do in our head, right?
I finished reading it, but didn't really care for it. I'm sure she is an excellent writer, but the story line wasn't my cup of tea. That said, I had no idea Tyler was one of our locals.
This is an interesting thread as I am not generally a fiction reader, and this isn't something I've given much personal thought to.
I do read a lot of nonfiction and some biographies that are told from senior views, but fiction from a senior's standpoint is often rare.
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