Belgium, France · 2009
1h 33m
Director Geoffrey Enthoven
Starring Barbara Sarafian, Greg Timmermans, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Lucas van den Eynde
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Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
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Enthoven and his screenwriters walk a fine line between celebrating the vitality of the elderly and asking us to laugh at their youthful affectations, twice embarrassing his three septuagenarians by forcing them to sing along to Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam."
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Calculated Belgian crowd-pleaser.
Like Stephen Walker's delicate nonfiction portrait "Young@Heart," it's a genuine heart-tugger about senior citizens rediscovering their youth by singing pop music; like Craig Brewer's crowdpleasing "Hustle & Flow," it sympathizes with a struggling rap artist without glossing over his flaws.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
This drippy dramedy embraces every inappropriate-oldster cliché with depressing calculation.
Arizona Republic by Kerry Lengel
Despite the silly-sounding premise, it's a wistful, bittersweet meditation on aging and death.
It's also sugary and has a silly tear-jerker ending. But I found myself laughing at the film's gentle humor, anyway.