For me, and I believe that for many others, some movies are "eye openers": they open our minds to new horizons, new possibilities, and new directions which one did not see before.
Calendar Girls was such a movie for me.
This is a 2003 British comedy film, which is based on a true story of a group of older women in Yorkshire, who produced a nude calendar to raise money for cancer research. Their struggles, courage, and friendship, are all very beautifully portrayed in this bell directed movie.
The film is directed by Nigel Cole, and stars a group of excellent actresses, headed by the well known Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.
For me this is a classic gerontological movie: it is all about old age, and even more specifically, it is all about sexism and ageism. The way society "constructs" older women, their bodies, their sexuality - all is manifested in a funny-serious way in the movie.
But even more importantly, the significance of the movie - in my view - is in its ageivist (a-la-ageivism) ideology. A notion of social activism, which resembles feminism, but is applied to aging.
Highly enjoyable, and one of the "classics" of the gerontological movies library.
2003
UK
Director: Nigel Cole
Movie Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjjQPlctd0
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