![]() Our Souls at Night is published by Picador (£7.99). “Makes me think there might be hope for somebody else in this life,” Addie and Louis are told by an old farmer. Unkindness pushes them apart, but the sentiment that lingers most, on finishing this beautiful, tranquil, tender novel, is contentment. ![]() She and Louis mend him – heal would be too affected a word for Haruf to use – with a dog and a baseball mitt and a camping trip. Addie’s sad, lonely six-year-old grandson comes to stay, abandoned by his haphazardly unkind parents. The town watches them, and approves or disapproves, depending. “It’s just two old people talking in the dark,” says Addie. Sharing their nights isn’t about sex, although it does become so, a little. The affair Louis had, and how he came back to his family. “I was feeling more interested in this than I’d felt about anything for a long time,” he says, and they spend their nights learning everything they can about each other. But Addie, at 70, isn’t worried about what the town thinks, and soon Louis isn’t either. Willingness to risk.” He comes around the back of her house on Cedar Street to make sure the neighbours don’t see, his pyjamas and toothbrush in a paper bag. “I’m not sure I can be equal to you… In courage, he said. And it all combines to make a novel which, like Louis and Addie’s relationship does for them, warms and expands the heart.Īt first, Louis is diffident about Addie’s plan. The language is straightforward and stripped back, calm and unassuming. Our Souls at Night is based on a novel by Kent Haruf.The late Kent Haruf’s final novel Our Souls at Night is set, as were his previous books, in the “little dirt-blown” Colorado town of Holt. There's a specific art to adapting a book for film. How does this movie shatter stereotypes about older folks? Why is it valuable for audiences of all ages to see a love story about two people of a certain age who are vibrant and engaged in the world around them? Why is it both heartwarming and instructive to see Jane Fonda, at 79 years of age, and Robert Redford, at 81, still able to bring a story like this one to life? ![]() What specific movie genres are your favorites? Which genres are made for your age group? Why is it a good thing to occasionally "view outside the box" and see movies that might surprise you? Our Souls at Night was made for longtime fans of the two stars, mature filmgoers, and love story fans. Show moreįamilies can talk about how movies are made to appeal to specific audiences. But even in their golden years, issues that affected them throughout their lives (their kids, their friendships), along with an adorable grandson (Iain Armitage) and a physical setback, complicate their newfound relationship and threaten to upset the rare relationship they're creating. It takes a little time, but Louis warms to the idea, willing to give it a try. What if they spent their nights together? Slept together? In the same bed? Simply for the companionship, the conversation, and the fact that neither would feel so terribly alone. What if.? Louis waits, not knowing what to expect, as Addie finds her way. It arrived in Venice saddled with a premise. What's more, she knows that they're both good people. Adapted from the Kent Haruf novel, Our Souls at Night is your classic Hollywood weepie, so immaculately played that it confounds crass preconceptions. They're both widowed, they have been neighbors for many years, though they don't know each other well, and, most critical, they are each alone. Summoning her courage, she makes an unusual proposal. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.Īddie Moore ( Jane Fonda) takes a giant leap in OUR SOULS AT NIGHT when she boldly knocks on the door of Louis Waters ( Robert Redford). Expect kissing, embracing, and bare shoulders, along with mild sexual innuendo in some scenes with the leading man's cronies, moderate social drinking (wine and beer), and a bit of swearing: two instances of "damn" and a "crap." With this gentle story of romance between two people in the September of their years, the duo completes a half-century of noteworthy romantic pairings, beginning in 1967 as young newlyweds in an early Neil Simon comedy, Barefoot in the Park, and delighting audiences in a memorable love story between two adults in The Electric Horseman, 1979. Many of the scenes exploring the development of their romance are set in the bedroom, without sex however, audiences can expect the ultimate answer to "will they or won't they?" treated with tenderness and restraint. Reuniting Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in a story about the relationship between a lonely widow and widower who have been longtime neighbors, the film makes the most of the two stars' appeal and cinematic integrity. ![]() Parents need to know that Our Souls at Night is based on the book by Kent Haruf. ![]()
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