Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review

(The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 2011)

Starring: Maggie Smith (Muriel), Bill Nighy (Douglas), Judi Dench (Evelyn), Tom Wilkinson (Graham), Dev Patel (Sonny), Penelope Wilton (Jean), Celia Imrie (Madge), Ronald Pickup (Norman), Tena Desae (Sunaina), Lillete Dubey (Mrs. Kapoor)

Director: John Madden

Written by: Ol Parker, Deborah Moggach

Content

On a new life: A group of British retirees migrate to India. In the catalog they look for the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Bangalore. Here is her wish for a luxurious retirement for very little money. But the palace of his best time has long past. Does the group still firmly on her dream?

Criticism

It's never too late to seek a new beginning once again. This may be trivial message is the main thrust of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A group of sprightly retiree moves to a supposed luxury age division, not realizing that the flophouse where they land, the heart project of an Indian young entrepreneur who would make the dump your own luxury home for cash joyful retirees. Ironically, sometimes macabre until fluffy and light and to slightly sad, a film that reflects the spectrum of life, perhaps seen too much through rose-colored glasses.

Departments for OAPs are booming. Modern Senior likes the extravagant, and in the autumn of life many a retiree experiences a new spring. Seemingly gone are the days when old age homes for unloved old people were better custodial facilities. Somewhere between these two extremes, a small group of retirees in a more true than another exotic resort in India, which has its best days long behind him - or maybe even never experienced that?

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review

The grounds on which these pensioners have decided to spend their last years calculated in a run-down store, which advertises itself as a slightly pretentious "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is very different. Many a more agile oldies music holds in the supposed pensioners' paradise to a good game on the lookout, a former judge returns to the place of his childhood and youth, in search of someone he left behind 40 years ago, what his life he seriously regretted; A lady looking after the death of her husband find their own new beginning, a couple can be in England at the age make only a very modest abode, and hopes in India more luxurious to live, and another queen is the only reason there to her hip to have surgery for a fraction of the cost to make, it would cost in England.

Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) rounds up an impressive (old) star ensemble to stage a touching tragicomedy as cordial. Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson are a few of the better known names of screen veterans. Young people bring freshness in the film, however, Dev Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire. The fine line between drama and comedy works well over long distances, the first half is staged with less ease than with a dose of black and macabre humor. Just typically British. What is not so well succeed, the balance of individual destinies. Not all stories are equally interesting. This reduces some characters to running gags, rattling down the incessant platitude her to loosen up the plot.

Among them is certainly also the part that Maggie Smith (Sister Act) holds. As grumpy Englishwoman who is closed to all foreigners and dark-skinned people from the ground up distrusts, nevertheless it includes some of the most vicious punch lines in the movie. Really stands out, however, are Judi Dench and perhaps even to some degree been more Tom Wilkinson (The Full Monty - The Full Monty) feature, the film character with a bitter-sweet note, and the sentimental journey back to the beginning of a special flair and a touch of mystery there.

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

With time and the resolution of certain storylines are, however, inevitably even lengths. Lots of local color as a visual distraction helps but time and again to get through these routes, which almost exclusively positivist image of India but sometimes acts a bit too artificial. Who knows in this country knows about the reality in the streets of major cities is quite different. Despite the fundamental credo of life-The Best Hotel Marigold social reality little more respect would have been possible. In addition, creeps to end an increasingly looking bollywoodesk emotional coloring which gives the final whole movie almost a slight tinge of Indian soap opera.

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The bottom line is still a smug sunny stripes succeeded populated by a bevy of retired people who try the vibrant urban India to find a new beginning that could attract not only the seniors to the movies. That is the essence of such a tragicomedy much about life, death, saying goodbye, but also revolves around the-Go-Again, hardly surprising. Are they still in essence timeless issues that accompany it all his life.

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel