What are some movies about ageism?
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My short list is:
• A Song for Martin, 2001
Swedish composer Martin and concertmaster Barbara fall in love and happily marry. While composing an opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. That slowly changes him.
• Being Julia, 2004
Set in ’30s London, the film is about stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge.
• Bicycle, Spoon, Apple, 2010
We witness Pasqual Maragall, Former President of Catalonia and former Mayor of Barcelona, and his surroundings during his fight against Alzheimer’s.
• Home for the Weekend, 2012
Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and he has lived in Berlin since his university days, very far from his parents Gitte and Günter, whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never completely get used to.
• Happy End, 2017
A well-to-do French family is dealing with a series of setbacks and crises.
• Our Souls at Night, 2017
Robert Redford and Jane Fonda star as Louis Waters and Addie Moore, a widow and widower who have lived next to each other for many years.
