Finding Your Feet (2018)

Very well executed

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Purely Joyful Movie!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

"Finding Your Feet" dragged on too long with a thin plot strung out with poor pacing. Yet, the film exuded good feeling from a fine group of British performers. The goal was to try to inject some gusto in life to the elderly. Due to some good British humor and the ensemble cast, the film largely succeed.The most touching relationship in the film was between the sisters, Sandra and Bif. After a decade-long separation, "Lady" Sandra returns to her humble origins with her sister after her constable husband has betrayed her with another woman. The story then unfolds around the "lust for life" theme embraced by Bif and her friends, who welcome Sandra into the fold.Sandra was a former dancer, once auditioning for a production of "A Chorus Line." She now joins forces with the "Age UK" amateur dancer group. She meets a kindly man, Charlie Glover, whose wife is dying of Alzheimers. The balance of the film tries to sustain the ebb-and-flow in the romantic relationship of Sandra and Charlie. The filmmakers work overtime in trying to develop the "lust for life" theme of the senior citizens. There was a nice character transformation for Sandra, who appears "on her high horse" at the outset, then discovers a new world through the simple things of life, such as genuine conversation, fun at the dance hall, and a reunion with her sister.There was a well-chosen line from Mark Twain spoken in the film by Bif, who subsequently learns that she is dying of lung cancer: "I was dead for billions of years before I was born, and I've not suffered the slightest inconvenience for it." The film succeeds in its theme of letting go of the past. It also unfolds the conflict of whether Sandra will return to the superficial world of her husband or "take a leap" into the unknown with Charlie, who is embarking on a new life in the beautiful Camargue region near Arlès in Southern France.The film really begins to drag when the Age UK group is invited to perform at the Rome Bienele festival. Still, the photography was beautiful in both the English and Italian settings, the scoring was always spot-on for both the dance and incidental music, and the audience remained on pins and needles as to whether Sandra would take her leap.

On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate. Finding Your Feet has a quite talented cast and a few Harry Potter actors for quite of the reunion but this drama/comedy/romance film is missing the point in the end. The whole story arc with the dance was quite the dull, the perfomances were fine for the most part but nothing crazy to be about and the overall dramatic aspect of it kind of forgettable and the same goes for the romantic parts. Overall a decent attempt but not as decent as it could. (3/10)

Wasn't sure about this movie before I saw it. Like a lot of other films the title put me off but having nothing better to do I decided to see it. By the end I had laughed at the witty scrip; cried during the emotional scenes (I'm a 65 year old man by the way); and left the theatre thoroughly uplifted by a story obviously aimed at my end of the age range. Outstanding performances by British acting royalty Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall and above all Celia Imrie (is there no role she can play?). It's story that will make you believe that you should squeeze life until the pips squeak. As I said it's probably aimed at people of a certain age but younger ones may learn a valuable lesson about not putting off till tomorrow what you can do today. A little gem of a film. Go see it!

What an absolutely WONDERFUL film, I couldn't recommend it highly enough. Great humour, sadness but a real feel-good film, go and see it, you won't be sorry!! I absolutely loved it, and applauded at the end!