Late Bloomers (2011)

The struggles of Mary and her husband adjusting to retirement.

Director:

Julie Gavras

Writers:

Olivier Dazat, Julie Gavras,

Stars:

William Hurt, Isabella Rossellini, Doreen Mantle

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
William Hurt	...	Adam
Isabella Rossellini	...	Mary
Doreen Mantle	...	Nora
Kate Ashfield	...	Giulia
Aidan McArdle	...	James
Arta Dobroshi	...	Maya
Luke Treadaway	...	Benjamin
Leslie Phillips	...	Leo
Hugo Speer	...	Peter
Joanna Lumley	...	Charlotte
Simon Callow	...	Richard
Iona Warne	...	Carolyn
Ryan Quartley	...	Henry
Nicholas Farrell	...	Francis
Sushil Chudasama	...	Sushil

Storyline

The struggles of Mary and her husband adjusting to retirement.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Gaumont [fr] Official site [hu]

Country:

France Belgium UK

Language:

English Italian

Release Date:

13 July 2011 (France)

Also Known As:

3 fois 20 ans

Filming Locations:

Arlington Avenue, Islington, London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

€3,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films du Worso, Bureau, The, BE-FILMS

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

French visa # 121576 delivered on 27-6-2011.

User Reviews

Good idea, bad result

Late Bloomers sounds like a good idea: a film about growing old, treated with humor. A director with a well-known name – Gavras – and actors such as Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt. The ingredients are all there and yet the final dish is unappetizing. What has gone wrong? I saw the movie at a special showing in London, with Ms. Gavras present. The theater – Cinema Lumière, at the French Institute - was absolutely full. After ten minutes, I knew it was going to be a struggle to stay to the end. Nobody was laughing. On screen, what should have been rapier wit turned out to be blunderbuss jokes. The approach was obvious and the humor was primitive, to say the least. Isabella Rossellini is Hurt's wife. She realizes one day that they have become, well, old. And she starts a campaign to minimize the effects of old age: she has handicapped kit installed in their bathroom, she buys for her husband a telephone with large, easy to see buttons, etc. This is supposed to be very funny. Worried that the suffers minor memory losses now and then, she follows her doctor's indications and goes to water aerobics, where lots of people in a swimming pool jump up and down, following an instructor's indications. She is out of step and jumps up when everybody else is jumping down. Again, supposed to be very funny. The whole film suffers from "in your face" attempts at being funny, which it ain't. When it ended, we had been told Ms. Gavras – the director – would appear on stage to answer questions and talk about the movie. Half the audience left the theater in a hurry, including my wife and me. We talked to a few of the people leaving the place and they all told us "It was bad enough to watch the movie… who wants to talk about it?". If only somebody like Woody Allen had directed this…