SIFF 2015 - I'll See You In My Dreams
After a morning of much walking and a turgid Metro experience, I finally got SIFF Cinema Uptown only 10 minutes after I wanted to be there (an hour before showtime), and the line for "I'll See You in My Dreams" was already down the block into the alley. I think a lot of the women were there to see Sam Elliot in person.
This film is very sweet, but it also doesn't pull its punches either. It doesn't wrap everything up in a pretty bow. Blythe Danner plays an older woman having to deal with loss. And suddenly two men pop into her life, an aimless pool boy, and the oh-so-suave and direct Sam Elliot (Best Opening Line Ever: Upon seeing Danner looking at vitamins, he says without introduction "You don't need any of that; you're just fine the way you are").
The film straddles a fine line between humor and pathos; there are genuine laughs, mostly with Danner's friends, but real emotion of loss too.
Both the director and Sam Elliot were there, saying this sort of film needs word of mouth, so that's what I'm doing . Yeah, I'm sure Charlize Theron capping rapists or Dwyane Johnson running from falling skyscrapers may be fun, but this has genuine human emotion.