The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Country: GB/US/UAE
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel
Synopsis:
Seven British senior citizens travel for their differing reasons to take advantage of a cheap holiday in India, and are initially dismayed to find a ramshackle hotel whose young manager assures them that 'all will be well in the end'.
Review:
Catching hold of the grey audience recently mobilised by Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham and Quartet, Madden's film is better than most in that it has a relatively tight grip on narrative and wears its positive message proudly as part and parcel of the Indian experience. Never mind that characters surprise us in less than credible ways, or that the colours of that country are foregrounded very much at the expense of the chaos, dirt, or indeed threat; the subplot involving former Slumdog Patel and his enamorata is a welcome foil for the oldies' more sobering crises and accommodations. Which is to say that the acting talent at the director's command is given material worthy of its 'expensiveness'.
Country: GB/US/UAE
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel
Synopsis:
Seven British senior citizens travel for their differing reasons to take advantage of a cheap holiday in India, and are initially dismayed to find a ramshackle hotel whose young manager assures them that 'all will be well in the end'.
Review:
Catching hold of the grey audience recently mobilised by Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham and Quartet, Madden's film is better than most in that it has a relatively tight grip on narrative and wears its positive message proudly as part and parcel of the Indian experience. Never mind that characters surprise us in less than credible ways, or that the colours of that country are foregrounded very much at the expense of the chaos, dirt, or indeed threat; the subplot involving former Slumdog Patel and his enamorata is a welcome foil for the oldies' more sobering crises and accommodations. Which is to say that the acting talent at the director's command is given material worthy of its 'expensiveness'.
Country: GB/US/UAE
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel
Synopsis:
Seven British senior citizens travel for their differing reasons to take advantage of a cheap holiday in India, and are initially dismayed to find a ramshackle hotel whose young manager assures them that 'all will be well in the end'.
Review:
Catching hold of the grey audience recently mobilised by Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham and Quartet, Madden's film is better than most in that it has a relatively tight grip on narrative and wears its positive message proudly as part and parcel of the Indian experience. Never mind that characters surprise us in less than credible ways, or that the colours of that country are foregrounded very much at the expense of the chaos, dirt, or indeed threat; the subplot involving former Slumdog Patel and his enamorata is a welcome foil for the oldies' more sobering crises and accommodations. Which is to say that the acting talent at the director's command is given material worthy of its 'expensiveness'.