LA BELLE VISITE (Jean-François Caissy, Canada). 80 minutes. Subtitled.
Sunday (May 2), 3:45 pm, Cumberland 3 Tuesday (May 4), 7 pm, Innis Town Hall. Rating: NNN
This spare observational piece tracks 12 seniors living in a retirement home located in a one-time motel on a large lake somewhere in Quebec. They are middle class and well attended to – this is a not an exposé of gross conditions – but like all aging people, their lives are slowly shrinking.
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Jean-François Caissy may have chosen too many subjects for us to connect to any of them. And they seem to have made no friendships or connections at the residence, which isn’t typical of retirement home existence.
But that sense of disconnection may be exactly what the director’s after.
