Tag Archives: carer

POETRY (2010)

Posted on June 17, 2019 by rinaross

POETRY (2010) How did I miss this great film featuring a 66 years old grandmother? Directed by Lee Chang-dong, it won the 2010 Cannes Best Screenplay Award and many more. I discovered it recently while searching for films that have … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, alzeihmer, alzheimer, family, film making, FILM RECEPTION, intergenerational relationships, three generations of women | Tagged care worker, carer, community class, grandmother, male dominance, poetry, rape, sex, suicide, teenager, unruly youth, women's group | Leave a comment

EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (1994) at EON

Posted on November 10, 2018 by rinaross

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) at EON I mentioned in this blog that I would not concentrate any more on the representation of old women in films but widen my interest and abandon the time-consuming film analysis approach. After … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, audience responses, death, family, FILM RECEPTION, food, intergenerational relationships, melodrama | Tagged Ageing, Ang Lee, carer, cooking, eating rituals, family, father daughters relationships, film reception, food, grandmother, grotesque old woman in film, humour, intergeneration, lifestyle, master chef, memories, widower | 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

FEMINISM, AGEING, AND FILMS

Posted on August 31, 2016 by rinaross

It is bizarre at the age of 81 to have a feeling of deja vu about the experience of seeing a film. And this is the only way I can explain my profound distaste of Chronic. I have tried to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, care | Tagged Ageing, assisted suicide], carer, caring, death, end of life care, family, feminism, grief, incontinence, old woman, voyeuristic style | Leave a comment

CHRONIC (2015) : ambiguities and control.

Posted on August 23, 2016 by rinaross

I must come back to Chronic. A friend mentioned to me another film directed by Franco: After Lucia. I viewed it immediately and the experience urged me to revisit Chronic and analyse it. I found that the two films … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged ambiguities, assisted death, assisted suicide], carer, caring, daughter, death, disability, film genre, film reception, grief, incontinence, long takes, palliative care, point of view, sexual harassment, story and plot, subjective point of view, vomiting | Leave a comment

Chronic: palliative care or a man’s portrait?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by rinaross

Holidays. Time to reflect on some questions I asked myself after a few viewings. In my post about Wrinkles I wrote: “But one cannot help being intrigued by the predominantly male atmosphere of the film when it is common knowledge that … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, animation, critics | Tagged Ageing, Ageism, amour, assisted suicide], carer, caring, death, end of life care, family, film reception, intergeneration, intimate care, Naked bodies, palliative care, sexual abuse by carer | 3 Comments

A WOMAN’S TALE : an overview

Posted on July 25, 2016 by rinaross

I have written about Paul Cox’s Innocence (2000) three years ago but I have wanted to consider this great director’s A Woman’s Tale ( 1991) for a very long time. In June this year Paul Cox died at the age … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, carer, caring, death, dying, dying at home, friendship, loneliness, metaphors, mother, mother and son, old man, old woman, Paul Cox, social contacts, terminal cancer, war trauma | 2 Comments

TATIE DANIELLE (1990)

Posted on May 12, 2016 by rinaross

This is the third group of older women who viewed and discussed the film apart from the 101 U3A members (see previous post in 2005 and resources for the BFI Guide to Older Women in Film). I was surprised again … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Ageism, critics, FILM RECEPTION | Tagged abuse of older people, Ageing, Ageism, black comedy, carer, family, film reception, grandmother, grotesque old woman in film, old people incontinence, representation old woman | Leave a comment

CHRONIC (2015)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by rinaross

This is not about the representation of old women in feature films but about the questions I ask myself – a woman aged 81 – in response to Chronic. My first reaction was ” yet another male carer! Why?” When … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing | Tagged Ageing, amour, assisted suicide], carer, chronic, death, documentary, dying at home, end of life caring, family carer, film reception, Franco, grandmother, male carer | Leave a 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

THE OTHERNESS OF THE OLD WOMAN Take 3

Posted on January 30, 2015 by rinaross

Old woman as ‘other’ and films In my blog of Nov. 2009 I wrote: When I first started to show films featuring women of 60 years and over to my contemporaries, I was 63. Some of the women in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Conferences and comments | Tagged Ageing, carer, film reception, grandmother, grief, other, representation old woman, teenager | 1 Comment

BABOUSSIA (2003) self sacrificing great grandmother

Posted on January 27, 2015 by rinaross

I have used italics for film quotes and bold italics for director’s quotes mainly from http://www.kinoglaz.fr/u_fiche_film.php?num=60 in French or the extras from the DVD. I have used the spelling of Baboussia used on the DVD cover but there are different … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, carer, caring, daughter, director's comment, family, family and war, grandmother, great-granddaughter, grief, intergeneration, mother, mother/daughter, passive old woman, representation old woman, rural/urban, Russia, self sacrificing old woman | 1 Comment

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

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

THE WHALES OF AUGUST (1987)

Posted on September 27, 2013 by rinaross

At the 2006 U3A/NFT Older Women in Films Study Day the focus film was The Whales of August. The film at the time was not available on DVD or Video but the film group had watched a copy from the TV. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, blindness, braille reading, carer, caring, cataracts., death, disability, friendship, hearing aid., linear and circular time, lined faces, looks, low and high tides, moonshine, nature, representation old woman, sea, sisterhood, sisters, stroke, whales, white hair, wrinkles | 2 Comments

AMOUR – QUESTIONS

Posted on April 1, 2013 by rinaross

ALSO SEE UNDER FILM GROUP PAGE THE RESPONSES OF THE FILM GROUP Two people have said to me: your blog is about the representation of old women and yet you do not address this in the one about Amour. This is true. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged Ageing, Ageism, carer, caring, co- housing, daughter, death, family, film reception, Haneke, looks, old woman, oscars, representation old woman | Leave a comment

AMOUR – A PERSONAL VIEW

Posted on March 26, 2013 by rinaross

At long last Amour. I was waiting for our film group to meet before writing about this amazing film. Being interested in how viewers receive a film and what is on-screen I found that above all other films Amour demands … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged amour, anger, carer, caring, dead body, death, euthanasia, funeral, group of old women, Haneke, long takes, paralysis, physical disability | 1 Comment

Haneke’s Amour

Posted on November 29, 2012 by rinaross

I have delayed writing about Amour. Of all the films I have ever seen Amour is the one that has touched me the deepest in my intimate world. I have in the last few years witnessed the slow physical and mental decline and … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing | Tagged Ageing, amour, carer, caring, Haneke, mental disability, separation | 8 Comments

ACTING THEIR AGE

Posted on May 7, 2012 by rinaross

FOR THE LEXI VIEWERS WHO MAY BE EXPECTING A POST ABOUT LEIGH’S ANOTHER YEAR, MY APOLOGIES, I HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY AND NOW PREPARING MYSELF TO GO ON HOLIDAY. 6th MAY I am back from the stimulating symposium on “Women, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ageing, Ageism, Conferences and comments | Tagged Azheimer's disease, carer, intergeneration, looks, mental disability, old woman, representation old woman, wrinkles | Leave a comment

The Salt of Life or Gianni and Women (2011)

Posted on August 31, 2011 by rinaross

Gianni e le donne. Literally Gianni and (the) Women. Gianni is on our screens again. Still drinking, but less than he did in Mid August Lunch, still a good cook, still at the beck and call of his mother. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Analysis | Tagged Ageism, carer, daughter, family, gaze, grandfather, mother, old woman, positive ageing, redundancy, role reversal, still doing it, walking the dog | Leave a comment