Golden years, gold, whop-whop-whop

As I told Robin Eifler, every time I hear the name of that Swiss movie, my mental jukebox cues up the David Bowie song from 1975.

Hey, why wouldn't it?

I heard it all of my senior year of high school...

"Look at that sky, life's begun
Nights are warm and the days are young"...

perfect for an 18-year-old with adventures ahead!

I'm sure that Esther Gemsch and Stefan Kurt were familiar with the song, too, as they would have been teens like me that year.

 

They were the stars in "Die goldenen Jahre", the award-winning 2023 film that Tomasz brought for us to enjoy.

She's 'Alice', the 65-year-old wife (actress was 68) who's been trying to wait patiently for her husband to retire, hoping for more of a sex life.

She sets it up that their two kids will present them with a cruise at his retirement party, knowing that he would not refuse the gift from them.

And he doesn't... but he's not happy about it.

The retirement was hard on 'Peter', a man with no discernible hobbies or interests outside of his career.

Even worse, the company let him know a robot would be taking over his job.

Ouch.

Meanwhile, 'Alice' finds out her best friend had been cheating on her spouse, 'Heinz', for the last fifteen years.

How did she find that out?

As her friend was dying, she asked 'Alice' to remove the love letters from the night stand.

Wow.

Of course, the letters just stir the libido of the lovelorn 'Alice'...

and lead to her abandoning 'Peter' on the cruise...

and having a series of adventures.

I do wish Robin would have been able to go to Cinema Savannah tonight!

What fun it would have been to talk to her about this!

I also would like her take on the appearance of the couple.

The whole time I was watching, I thought, "Do I look that old?"

Or was it the raising of two teens that made them seem older to me?

Yet another question to ask others!

That won't be tomorrow, though.

Last night was Shakespeare, and so shall be Saturday night.

It's been so long since I had two of the Bard's tales so close together!

That was back in November of 2018, with me having "Twelfth Night" on a Thursday, then "King Lear" on a Friday.

Such bliss to have two for my bday67!

(smile!)