The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel wins over the crowd at Glasgow Film Festival (STV)

Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a feel-good British comedy that offers plenty to entertain both the golden oldies and younger film fans.

 By Greig Gallagher 19 February 2012 08:24 GMT

 Although the terms ‘British’ and ‘feel-good’ might seem kind of contradictory, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel manages to be both of these things at once. 

From Shakespeare In Love director John Madden comes a heart-warming tale of a group of pension-age Brits who leave the grey landscape of broken Britain behind for the sun-drenched utopia (or so they hope) that is India.

 Madden brings together an impressive cast of British talent to represent a motley crew of grey-haired eccentrics. The larger than life characters soon find themselves entwined in one another’s lives.

 The likes of Ronald Pickup’s sex-obsessed geriatric Norman offer a constant supply of belly-laughs while characters like Judi Dench’s recently bereaved Evelyn give the film a poignant dramatic feel. Considering the age of the main characters, the film does deal with issues which are probably most relevant to the older demographic. 

Big questions about death, loss, health and marriage are addressed as well as tipping a light-hearted nod to the more intrinsically comic side-effects of old age: technophobia, dealing with ageism, sexuality and hip-replacements.


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