"Our Souls at Night" sounds as if it should be a noir-ish plunge into existential darkness of ravaged psyches while bloodhounds balefully howl at But that isn't this movie, which is as comforting, low-key and unfussy as your grandmother's tablecloth, the one she used every day and not just for company. Revisit these iconic summer movies, from coming-of-age favorites, to whirlwind romances, to camp slashers. Now in the twilight of their career Redford and Fonda come together in the screen once more in Our Souls at Night and you can sense that these two people are comfortable with each other.
Our Souls at Night is based on a novel by Kent Haruf. Do you look forward to seeing movies made from books that you have enjoyed? The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review.
Summary: Our Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they'd been neighbors for decades, but had little contact. Film Review: 'Our Souls at Night'. It is possibly too early in his career to Our Souls at Night shares a lot in common with The Lunchbox - they're both unlikely love stories, between two characters trying to grab a second. "Our Souls at Night" is a small film, and it's often such a placid one that it feels like it's standing in place. Batra is a competent director, but he frames every boring shot of this story with the plainness of someone who knew that it almost exclusively be screened on iPhones (Netflix's approach to narrative. It is based on the novel of same name by Kent Haruf.
Trailer Our Souls at Night
It arrived in Venice saddled with a premise that could hardly sound more cloying, together with an unfortunate title that has had hardened British. "Our Souls at Night," adapted (by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) from Kent Haruf's final, posthumously published novel, is too cautious and cozy to be a great movie, or even a very interesting one. The music (by Elliot Goldenthal) telegraphs the emotions too precisely. 'Our Souls at Night': Film Review
He takes a day to think it over. So begins, without further preamble, the romantic comedy Our Souls as Night, adapted from Kent Haruf's quiet, deeply thoughtful final novel. Our Souls At Night is The Lunchbox director's second consecutive cinematic adaptation after The Sense of an Ending. Told with with the gentle touch of a partner taking your arm on an afternoon stroll, Ritesh Batra's "Our Souls at Night" is a wise and wistful drama about life after death; regardless of how old you are, this is the kind of movie that your parents would like.