Attention, moviegoers interested in aging who thought "The Iron Lady" was too depressing, "Nebraska" was too depressing, and "Amour" was off-the-charts depressing. I've got a tip for you: "Land Ho!"
Part road movie, part character study, this quiet indie film follows two former brothers-in-law on an improvisatory vacation. Mitch, a bombastic divorced surgeon with a salty vocabulary, thinks the more reserved Colin needs to "reach down and grab a handful of guts" to recover from widowhood and then a divorce. So he books a flight to Iceland — why Iceland? why not? — and they're off on a series of low-intensity adventures.
As they motor around the spectacular countryside and have rambling conversations, what passes for a plot involves questions like whether their rented Hummer will make it through a pool of uncertain depth on a remote road, or whether they will find their way back to the hotel after a late-night hike. The story meanders, and the growing friendship has its ups and downs, but note this: Nobody gets dementia. Nobody dies.
In fact, the movie never actually reveals how old these guys are, though the actors playing them (Earl Lynn Nelson, actually an ocular plastic surgeon in Kentucky, and Paul Eenhoorn) are 72 and 65, respectively.
Age permeates their story — "We're the oldest people in here, by a lot," Colin observes at a dance club in Reykjavik — but it surfaces, wafts through their conversations (often improvised), then dissipates again. One man refers, glancingly, to loneliness; the other briefly wonders how to live after retirement. Then they're off to see the geysers or pick up women. (My one quibble: Hooray for late-life lust, but Mitch's relentless casual sexism is no more cute or endearing than in a younger man.)
"Land Ho!" opened last week in New York and Los Angeles, and will open in other California cities and in Arizona this weekend and next. It comes to Connecticut, Colorado, Washington and its suburbs, and the New York-New Jersey suburbs in August.
It requires tolerance for an ambling pace (you can read The Times's review here) and the grumbly reactions that long treks in close quarters can provoke, but it's a gem.
And I suspect a number of New Old Age readers will want to cheer this exchange toward the end: Colin muses that he'll miss Iceland. "Don't get that Sunday afternoon attitude," Mitch says. "Good times are still a-comin'."
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