This delightful story starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas is both comic and tragic as three life stories unwind. Kevin Kline plays a three times divorced, recovered alcoholic and penniless, American man who arrives in Paris to take over the apartment left to him in his father’s will. The resident of the apartment, 92 years old and played by Maggie Smith explains a viager, a unique way of selling real estate in France. It is this viager that is the entanglement in the story that began before Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) was born. My Old Lady unwinds a love story of many years between Matilde Girard (Maggie Smith) and Mathias Gold’s father that began in Paris before either Mathias or Chloe (Matilde’s daughter - played by Kristin Scott Thomas) were born. The early education about family, parent love and relationship that Mathias and Chloe witnessed, is worked out and through in this funny and tearful movie.“No adultery is bloodless.”
~ Natalia Ginzburg
Now playing at the Odeon Theatre in downtown Victoria.
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