Tag Archives: care home

THE MOLE AGENT QUESTIONS

Posted on April 29, 2021 by rinaross

As an old couple under lockdown for months we have been viewing an awful lot of TV (films, series, documentaries, zooms) and had to bend to each other’s choices…. On my first viewing I did not realise that The … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, alzeihmer, care homes, carers, dementia, documentary, FILM RECEPTION, oscar, women's friendships | Tagged care home, dementia, documentary, group of old women, loneliness, Spy, spying, Women men imbalance | Leave a comment

AWAY FROM HER (2008) and Still Alice (2014)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by rinaross

Of all couple separations the separation due to dementia can be the most painful. Major illnesses in a partner, a child are also difficult to live through. It is the erasing of the partner and his/her annihilation that is unbearably … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, ageing couple, alzeihmer, alzheimer, care, care homes, Film Analysis, film noir, grief, horror films, old couple separation, three generations of women | Tagged care home, dementia | 1 Comment

Mrs. Caldicot’s Cabbage War (2002)

Posted on August 4, 2018 by rinaross

Before I write about the EON (Ealing Over 60 network) film session Mrs. Caldicot’s Cabbage War I would like to quote again the most outrageously sexist/ageist example in journalism that I have encountered in my extensive reading about films. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Ageism, audience responses, care homes, critics, family, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged abuse of old people, Ageism, Atul Gawande, care home, family, food, humour, interviews, media, retirement home, reviews, sexism | Leave a comment

PAULINE AND PAULETTE (2001)

Posted on November 21, 2017 by rinaross

Third film at the Ealing Oldies Network. The 18 people present were enthusiastic. They appreciated the film and the exchange of views at the end was very lively and informed. It was evident that a few had some experience in … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, audience responses, care, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged actors, amateur dramatics, care, care home, carer, caring, communication, family, flowers, learning difficulties, mother/daughter, nature, photos, representation old woman, retirement, reviews, shop keeper, sisters, small village, women | 3 Comments

PAULINE AND PAULETTE (2001) film group responses

Posted on October 1, 2016 by rinaross

The Brent U3A film group looking at the representation of old women met again for the first session of the academic year. I was sad to note that there were no members of the original group alive anymore. But I … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, care, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged actors, Ageing, care and love, care home, communication, disablement, empathy, family, flowers, guilt, image, inheritance, music, operetta, sisters, women | 1 Comment

WRINKLES (2012)

Posted on February 28, 2016 by rinaross

I quote here a few lines of my 2013 post that dealt with the wonderful Intergenerational Film Festival Lumiere Blanche organised by the geriatrician Dr. Jean Jacques Depassio. The Festival is no more, but the DVD Wrinkles has been released in the USA and … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, animation, festivals, Film Analysis, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged Alzheimer's, animation film, care home, carer, DR. Depassio, ethnic diversity, festival Lumiere Blanche, film reception, male nurse, sexism, wrinkles | Leave a comment

TATIE DANIELLE (1990) The little old woman

Posted on February 26, 2015 by rinaross

” I am a lonely old woman in the hands of a lunatic.” Tatie Danielle It is difficult to write about Tatie Danielle. A film hard to categorise. It is not black comedy nor satire as it is sometimes described being … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Ageism, Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, Ageism, anger, beauty salon, bourgeois, care home, carer, dogooders, film reception, flowers, hair, loneliness, nasty old woman, old people incontinence, petit bourgeois, Tatie Danielle | 3 Comments

MUM AND ME – SUE BOURNE TV DOCUMENTARY

Posted on October 26, 2014 by rinaross

When I started my blog on the representation of old women I needed to limit my field of research. I decided to exclude animation, because I am not very versed in the genre, and documentaries because the area might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, documentary | Tagged Ageing, Alzheimer's, care home, carer, changing relationships, daughter, dementia, documentaries, documentary, grandmother, intergeneration, mother, mother/daughter, oldwoman/teenager, relationship, Sue Bourne, teenager | 1 Comment

MIRROR MIRROR CONFERENCE

Posted on November 1, 2013 by rinaross

“The photo is never a mirror” Dr. Margaret Morganroth Gullette After I attended the Lumière Blanche Festival I explored with another member of the Film Group the possibilities of reaching and exposing young people to images of old women. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Conferences and comments | Tagged advanced style, Ageing, Ageism, brand culture, care home, fashionistas, grandmother, Hanna Zeilig, images of old women, intergeneration, looks, Margaret Gullette, mirror mirror, mother, photos, product placement, representation old woman, white hair | 4 Comments

LE FILM PERMET DE LIBERER LA PAROLE DR. J.J. DEPASSIO

Posted on October 24, 2013 by rinaross

Films permit free conversations says Dr. Depassio. Dr. Jean-Jacques Depassio, geriatrician, works at the Hopital de Fourvière – Centre de Gérontology in Lyon. He is the organiser of the Lumière Blanche Intergenerational film Festival. I realised the first time I … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Conferences and comments | Tagged A Simple Life, Ageing, Ageism, amour, best exotic marigold hotel, british comedies, care home, carer, carers, death, directors gaze on ageing, family, films and ageing, Gerontology, hospice, intergeneration, J.J Depassio, Lumiere Blanche, Quartet, representation disablement, representation old woman | Leave a comment

LUMIERE BLANCHE INTERGENERATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Posted on October 15, 2013 by rinaross

I am just back from attending the Lumiere Blanche Festival in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune. This is the intriguing name of a suburb of Lyon, the birth town of the brothers Lumiere and also of Bertrand Tavernier. The festival took place in an … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Conferences and comments | Tagged Ageing, Bertrand Tavernier, care home, carer, geriatrician, Ignacio Ferreras, intergeneration, intergenerational, Laurel and Hardy, Le Lem, Le Lem cinema, lumiere blanche festival, wrinkles | Leave a comment

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937)

Posted on June 27, 2013 by rinaross

La cohabitation n’a jamais fait de bien à personne. (my mother) Life flies past us so swiftly that few of us pause to consider those who have lost the tempo of today. Their laughter and their tears we do not even … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, care home, daughter, daughter-in-law, family, grandmother, grotesque old woman in film, intergeneration, mother/daughter, old woman, oldwoman/teenager, representation old woman, separation, sons and mothers, supernatural | 2 Comments

QUARTET (2012)

Posted on May 25, 2013 by rinaross

SEE ALSO UNDER ‘RESOURCES’ THE FILM GROUP RESPONSES When I first saw Quartet at the London Film Festival I was as enthralled as the whole audience. We left the cinema with smiles on our faces. There were so many pleasures … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, amour, best exotic marigold hotel, care home, caring, friendship, intergeneration, La Traviata, music, musicians, opera, Quartet, representation old woman, retirement home, Rigoletto, verdi | 1 Comment

Anger at Ageist review. Bradshaw and Quartet.

Posted on December 29, 2012 by rinaross

Oh dear. It is Peter Bradshaw’s ageism again that spurs me back to the blog when I thought I would stop and consider at the end of this year. His review of Quartet reveals, in his critique and language, crass … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Ageism, Conferences and comments | Tagged Ageism, ageist reviewer, anger, care home, escapism, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | 3 Comments

Late Bloomers (2011)

Posted on March 24, 2012 by rinaross

Oh dear. What can I say? Another film that is likely to divide audiences. But in this case as opposed to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which is a well-directed and structured film with great performances I will express what I … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged care home, death, fear of ageing, grandmother, intergeneration, marital conflict, marital reconciliationo, separation | 5 Comments

Mrs. Caldicot’s Cabbage War

Posted on December 21, 2009 by rinaross

This month people braved the snow flurries and bitter cold, to come to the Lexi for our film club. They all enjoyed the film, so imagine my surprise to read Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian the very next day … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing | Tagged care home, media, mother and son, sedation | Leave a comment