Thursday, January 13, 2011
OLD AND HAPPY
Today's film was a documentary by Andrew Jacobs and filmed by a team led by one of the Maysle brothers. Very good.
26 years ago a group of NY Jews bought a Catskill's cottage colony. One of an original 500 such institutions now diminished to 50-100. A unifying factor was the fact that every one of the people were survivors of the holocaust.
They made their own family from the ashes.
All of them are now in their later years and the colony is up for sale. Or not.
This is the last season that they will come together for all or part of the summer.
No narration. Only the people. A Maysle feature.
It is very very good.
In a way it involves a number of stories. The history of cottage colonies, the survival stories, the individual stories and the story of aging out.
It is the latter that I can most identify with.
I would not mind seeing this again.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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