Not exact matches
Lou is one of the older
adults featured in The Age of
Love, a
film about speed dating for 70 - to 90 - year - olds.
It's a
film about young -
adult romance and heartbreak that embraces the highs, lows and the in - betweens, at an age when
love is a melodrama being written on the fly.
If this was a
film about adults, or even teenagers running off together, there would have been a significant crisis of faith between the
love - struck pair: a moment where they realized the foolishness of their impulsive flight.
«From a comedic standpoint, you'll find something to laugh
about at certain points during
ADULT BEGINNERS, but there isn't anything to
love when looking at the
film as a whole.»
One thing I
love about this
film is that not only is it a tale of good versus evil, it is a story
about an
adult hunting down two children, who make it quickly apparent that they tougher than their looks would have you believe.
A serious - minded and decidedly
adult fairy tale
about a virginal young woman who learns from her brother (Malcolm McDowell) that they are descended from a race of human - panther hybrids doomed to revert to their murderous feline state while making
love to anyone outside of their own bloodline — a problem as she has just fallen in
love with a sweet - natured zookeeper (John Heard) who specializes in big cats — this is a
film swimming in sex, violence, poetry, philosophy and swanky visuals in such extremes that it always seems to be on the verge of becoming utterly ridiculous but it somehow never goes over the edge into camp because of Schrader's serious - minded handling of the material; it may be nonsense but he never treats it as such.
A child can find things to
love about this movie, and that same child can grow into an
adult, and suddenly recognize the clever and inventive humor that is strewn throughout this excellent
film.
Praise has already been heaped on just
about everyone in the
film's stellar ensemble, from the fiercely - committed Naomie Harris as Chiron's junkie mother to Trevante Rhodes and André Holland, who meticulously telegraph a profound and heart - stopping romance as
adult versions of Chiron and his estranged friend / lost
love, Kevin.