Old Cats
Can a cat be more loved than a daughter?
Price: | $16.10 |
Available:
Usually ships in 5-7 business days
Made-on-Demand
|
DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Random Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bélgica Castro & Alejandro Sieveking | |
Performer: | Claudia Celedón, Catalina Saavedra & Alejandro Goic | |
Directed by | Sebastián Silva & Pedro Peirano | |
Director of Photography: | Sebastián Silva |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A small-scale effort with huge emotions -- and the sharp barbs and perfectly-timed deadpan reactions are not far off from Edward Albee
Full Review
Film-Forward.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Walks a fine line between empathetic treatment of its characters and voyeuristic freakshow gazing.
Full Review
Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
Neither Rosario nor Isadora is entirely nice - the child's desperate selfishness is matched, and perhaps caused, by her mother's cold reserve - but Mr. Silva and Mr. Peirano make them worth caring about.
New York Times
Peirano and Silva refuse the cliché of imminent death as healing.
Full Review
Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
No, it's not a sequel to Disney's John Travolta/Robin Williams vehicle Old Dogs (although if it was, it takes the series in a brave new direction)...
Quickflix
Rating: 4/5 --
The wild-eyed Celedón and stealthily empathetic Saavedra introduce a farcical element to this otherwise mournful milieu, but the tonal clashes yield something genuinely cathartic, if also ultimately irresolvable.
Full Review
Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
An octogenarian living comfortably with her husband and two cats, Isadora suddenly finds herself fighting a battle on two fronts when dementia arrives at the same time as her daughter's scheme to get Isadora to sign over the lease on her Santiago, Chile, apartment.
Product Description:
Drugs, money, and failing relationships irritate the already difficult relationship between an elderly woman and her daughter in this comedy drama from the writing and directing team of Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano. Isadora (Bélgica Castro) is in her nineties and shares an apartment stuffed with a lifetime of memories and souvenirs with her second husband, Enrique (Alejandro Sieveking). Isadora is starting to sink into senility, and her poor health makes it hard for her to leave the flat, so Enrique must look after her. Before long, Enrique gets some assistance from Rosario (Claudia Celedón), but it's not the sort of help he wants; Rosario has a weakness for cocaine and a long history of launching failed get-rich-quick schemes, one of which has just bottomed out. Rosario's idea of coming to the rescue involves claiming power of attorney over her mother and selling her flat out from under her, which will provide them both with a quick influx of cash but no security for Isadora and Enrique. As Isadora and Rosario argue about who controls the older woman's fate, Enrique and Rosario's lover, Beatrice (Catalina Saavedra), find themselves caught in a long-simmering family rivalry. GATOS VIEJOS (aka OLD CATS) received its North American premiere at the 2010 New York Film Festival.
Keywords:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 93,677
- UPC: 883476146515
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item